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Chapter 8: Q 30. (page 522)
High tuition costs Glenn wonders what proportion of the students at his college believe that tuition is too high. He interviews an SRS of of the students and finds of those interviewed think tuition is too high.
All the conditions are met in given case.
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Reporting cheating What proportion of students are willing to report cheating by other students? A student project put this question to an SRS of undergraduates at a large university: “You witness two students cheating on a quiz. Do you go to the professor?”
You have measured the systolic blood pressure of an SRS of company employees. A confidence interval for the mean systolic blood pressure for the employees of this company is . Which of the following statements is true?
a. of the sample of employees have a systolic blood pressure between 122 and .
b. of the population of employees have a systolic blood pressure between and.
c. If the procedure were repeated many times, of the resulting confidence intervals would contain the population mean systolic blood pressure.
d. If the procedure were repeated many times, of the time the population mean systolic blood pressure would be between and .
e. If the procedure were repeated many times, of the time the sample mean systolic blood pressure would be between .
t time When constructing confidence intervals for a population mean, we almost always use critical values from a t distribution rather than the standard Normal distribution.
a. When is it necessary to use a t critical value rather than a z critical value when constructing a confidence interval for a population means?
b. For a particular level of confidence, explain what happens to the t critical values as Page Number: 548 the degrees of freedom increase.
Weeds among the corn Velvetleaf is a particularly annoying weed in cornfields. It produces lots of seeds, and the seeds wait in the soil for years until conditions are right for sprouting. How many seeds do velvetleaf plants produce? The histogram shows the counts from a random sample of plants that came up in a cornfield
when no herbicide was used. Determine if the Normal/Large Sample condition is met in this context.
A newspaper reporter asked an SRS of residents in a large city for their opinion about the mayor’s job performance. Using the results from the sample, the confidence interval for the proportion of all residents in the city who approve of the mayor’s job performance is . What is the value of ?
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