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Answer:
The 95% confidence interval would be given by (19.141;23.538)
Step-by-step explanation:
1) Previous concepts
A confidence interval is "a range of values that’s likely to include a population value with a certain degree of confidence. It is often expressed a % whereby a population means lies between an upper and lower interval".
The margin of error is the range of values below and above the sample statistic in a confidence interval.
Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".
represent the sample mean for the sample
population mean (variable of interest)
s=9.22 represent the sample standard deviation
n=70 represent the sample size
2) Confidence interval
The confidence interval for the mean is given by the following formula:
(1)
In order to calculate the critical value we need to find first the degrees of freedom, given by:
Since the Confidence is 0.95 or 95%, the value of and
, and we can use excel, a calculator or a table to find the critical value. The excel command would be: "=-T.INV(0.025,69)".And we see that
Now we have everything in order to replace into formula (1):
So on this case the 95% confidence interval would be given by (19.141;23.538)
Answer:
(a) The probability that the thickness is less than 3.0 mm is 0.119.
(b) The probability that the thickness is more than 7.0 mm is 0.119.
(c) The probability that the thickness is between 3.0 mm and 7.0 mm is 0.762.
Step-by-step explanation:
We are given that thickness measurements of ancient prehistoric Native American pot shards discovered in a Hopi village are approximately normally distributed, with a mean of 5.0 millimeters (mm) and a standard deviation of 1.7 mm.
Let X = <u><em>thickness measurements of ancient prehistoric Native American pot shards discovered in a Hopi village.</em></u>
So, X ~ Normal()
The z-score probability distribution for the normal distribution is given by;
Z = ~ N(0,1)
where, = population mean thickness = 5.0 mm
= standard deviation = 1.7 mm
(a) The probability that the thickness is less than 3.0 mm is given by = P(X < 3.0 mm)
P(X < 3.0 mm) = P( <
) = P(Z < -1.18) = 1 - P(Z
1.18)
= 1 - 0.8810 = <u>0.119</u>
The above probability is calculated by looking at the value of x = 1.18 in the z table which has an area of 0.881.
(b) The probability that the thickness is more than 7.0 mm is given by = P(X > 7.0 mm)
P(X > 7.0 mm) = P( >
) = P(Z > 1.18) = 1 - P(Z
1.18)
= 1 - 0.8810 = <u>0.119</u>
The above probability is calculated by looking at the value of x = 1.18 in the z table which has an area of 0.881.
(c) The probability that the thickness is between 3.0 mm and 7.0 mm is given by = P(3.0 mm < X < 7.0 mm) = P(X < 7.0 mm) - P(X 3.0 mm)
P(X < 7.0 mm) = P( <
) = P(Z < 1.18) = 0.881
P(X 3.0 mm) = P(
) = P(Z
-1.18) = 1 - P(Z < 1.18)
= 1 - 0.8810 = 0.119
The above probability is calculated by looking at the value of x = 1.18 in the z table which has an area of 0.881.
Therefore, P(3.0 mm < X < 7.0 mm) = 0.881 - 0.119 = 0.762.