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A camp director is interested in the mean number of letters each child sends during his/her camp session. The population standard deviation is known to be 2.5. A survey of 20 campers is taken. The mean from the sample is 7.9 with a sample standard deviation of 2.8.

• $\overline{x}=\text{________}$
• $\sigma =\text{________}$
• ${s}_{x}=\text{________}$
• $n=\text{________}$
• $n-1=\text{________}$
• Define the Random Variables $X$ and $\overline{X}$ , in words.
• Which distribution should you use for this problem? Explain your choice.
• Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean number of letters campers send home.
• State the confidence interval.
• Sketch the graph.
• Calculate the error bound.
• What will happen to the error bound and confidence interval if 500 campers are surveyed? Why?

• 7.9
• 2.5
• 2.8
• 20
• 19
• $N\left(7\text{.}9,\frac{2\text{.}5}{\sqrt{\text{20}}}\right)$
• CI: (6.98, 8.82)
• EB: 0.92

Stanford University conducted a study of whether running is healthy for men and women over age 50. During the first eight years of the study, 1.5% of the 451 members of the 50-Plus Fitness Association died. We are interested in the proportion of people over 50 who ran and died in the same eight–year period.

• Define the Random Variables $X$ and $P\text{'}$ , in words.
• Which distribution should you use for this problem? Explain your choice.
• Construct a 97% confidence interval for the population proportion of people over 50 who ran and died in the same eight–year period.
• State the confidence interval.
• Sketch the graph.
• Calculate the error bound.
• Explain what a “97% confidence interval” means for this study.

In a recent sample of 84 used cars sales costs, the sample mean was $6425 with a standard deviation of$3156. Assume the underlying distribution is approximately normal.

• Which distribution should you use for this problem? Explain your choice.
• Define the Random Variable $\overline{X}$ , in words.
• Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean cost of a used car.
• State the confidence interval.
• Sketch the graph.
• Calculate the error bound.
• Explain what a “95% confidence interval” means for this study.

• ${t}_{\text{83}}$
• mean cost of 84 used cars
• CI: (5740.10, 7109.90)
• EB = 684.90

A telephone poll of 1000 adult Americans was reported in an issue of Time Magazine . One of the questions asked was “What is the main problem facing the country?” 20% answered “crime”. We are interested in the population proportion of adult Americans who feel that crime is the main problem.

• Define the Random Variables $X$ and $P\text{'}$ , in words.
• Which distribution should you use for this problem? Explain your choice.
• Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of adult Americans who feel that crime is the main problem.
• State the confidence interval.
• Sketch the graph.
• Calculate the error bound.
• Suppose we want to lower the sampling error. What is one way to accomplish that?
• The sampling error given by Yankelovich Partners, Inc. (which conducted the poll) is ± 3%. In 1-3 complete sentences, explain what the ± 3% represents.

Refer to the above problem. Another question in the poll was “[How much are] you worried about the quality of education in our schools?” 63% responded “a lot”. We are interested in the population proportion of adult Americans who are worried a lot about the quality of education in our schools.

1. Define the Random Variables $X$ and $P\text{'}$ , in words.
2. Which distribution should you use for this problem? Explain your choice.
3. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of adult Americans worried a lot about the quality of education in our schools.
• State the confidence interval.
• Sketch the graph.
• Calculate the error bound.
4. The sampling error given by Yankelovich Partners, Inc. (which conducted the poll) is ± 3%. In 1-3 complete sentences, explain what the ± 3% represents.

• $N\left(0.63,\sqrt{\frac{\left(0.63\right)\left(0.37\right)}{1000}}\right)$
• CI: (0.60, 0.66)
• EB = 0.03

Six different national brands of chocolate chip cookies were randomly selected at the supermarket. The grams of fat per serving are as follows: 8; 8; 10; 7; 9; 9. Assume the underlying distribution is approximately normal.

• Calculate a 90% confidence interval for the population mean grams of fat per serving of chocolate chip cookies sold in supermarkets.
• State the confidence interval.
• Sketch the graph.
• Calculate the error bound.
• If you wanted a smaller error bound while keeping the same level of confidence, what should have been changed in the study before it was done?
• Go to the store and record the grams of fat per serving of six brands of chocolate chip cookies.
• Calculate the mean.
• Is the mean within the interval you calculated in part (a)? Did you expect it to be? Why or why not?

A confidence interval for a proportion is given to be (– 0.22, 0.34). Why doesn’t the lower limit of the confidence interval make practical sense? How should it be changed? Why?

## Try these multiple choice questions.

The next three problems refer to the following: According to a Field Poll, 79% of California adults (actual results are 400 out of 506 surveyed) feel that “education and our schools” is one of the top issues facing California. We wish to construct a 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of California adults who feel that education and the schools is one of the top issues facing California. (Source: http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/)

A point estimate for the true population proportion is:

• 0.90
• 1.27
• 0.79
• 400

C

A 90% confidence interval for the population proportion is:

• (0.761, 0.820)
• (0.125, 0.188)
• (0.755, 0.826)
• (0.130, 0.183)

A

The error bound is approximately

• 1.581
• 0.791
• 0.059
• 0.030

D

The next two problems refer to the following:

A quality control specialist for a restaurant chain takes a random sample of size 12 to check the amount of soda served in the 16 oz. serving size. The sample mean is 13.30 with a sample standard deviation of 1.55. Assume the underlying population is normally distributed.

Find the 95% Confidence Interval for the true population mean for the amount of soda served.

• (12.42, 14.18)
• (12.32, 14.29)
• (12.50, 14.10)
• Impossible to determine

B

What is the error bound?

• 0.87
• 1.98
• 0.99
• 1.74

C

What is meant by the term “90% confident” when constructing a confidence interval for a mean?

• If we took repeated samples, approximately 90% of the samples would produce the same confidence interval.
• If we took repeated samples, approximately 90% of the confidence intervals calculated from those samples would contain the sample mean.
• If we took repeated samples, approximately 90% of the confidence intervals calculated from those samples would contain the true value of the population mean.
• If we took repeated samples, the sample mean would equal the population mean in approximately 90% of the samples.

C

The next two problems refer to the following:

Five hundred and eleven (511) homes in a certain southern California community are randomly surveyed to determine if they meet minimal earthquake preparedness recommendations. One hundred seventy-three (173) of the homes surveyed met the minimum recommendations for earthquake preparedness and 338 did not.

Find the Confidence Interval at the 90% Confidence Level for the true population proportion of southern California community homes meeting at least the minimum recommendations for earthquake preparedness.

• (0.2975, 0.3796)
• (0.6270, 6959)
• (0.3041, 0.3730)
• (0.6204, 0.7025)

C

The point estimate for the population proportion of homes that do not meet the minimum recommendations for earthquake preparedness is:

• 0.6614
• 0.3386
• 173
• 338

A

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