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andreyandreev [35.5K]
2 years ago
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An educational psychologist wishes to know the mean number of words a third grader can read per minute. She wants to make an est

imate at the 99% level of confidence. For a sample of 4657 third graders, the mean words per minute read was 24.9. Assume a population standard deviation of 5.7. Construct the confidence interval for the mean number of words a third grader can read per minute. Round your answers to one decimal place.
Mathematics
1 answer:
Lesechka [4]2 years ago
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Answer:

The 99% confidence interval is given by (24.7;25.2)    

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".

\bar X=24.9 represent the sample mean for the sample  

\mu population mean (variable of interest)

\sigma=5.7 represent the population standard deviation

n=4657 represent the sample size

Confidence =0.99 or 99%  

2) Confidence interval

The confidence interval for the mean is given by the following formula:

\bar X \pm z_{\alpha/2}\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}   (1)

Since the Confidence is 0.99 or 99%, the value of \alpha=0.01 and \alpha/2 =0.005, and we can use excel, a calculator or a table to find the critical value. The excel command would be: "=-NORM.INV(0.005,0,1)".And we see that z_{\alpha/2}=2.58

Now we have everything in order to replace into formula (1):

24.9-2.58\frac{5.7}{\sqrt{4657}}=24.685    

24.9+2.58\frac{5.7}{\sqrt{4657}}=25.115

So on this case the 99% confidence interval would be given by (24.7;25.2)    

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