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max2010maxim [7]
3 years ago
11

The head librarian at the Library of Congress has asked her assistant for an interval estimate of the mean number of books check

ed out each day. The assistant provides the following interval estimate: from 740 to 920 books per day. If the head librarian knows that the population standard deviation is 150 books checked out per day, and she asked her assistant for a 95% confidence interval, approximately how large a sample did her assistant use to determine the interval estimate
Mathematics
1 answer:
Verdich [7]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

n=(\frac{1.960(150)}{90})^2 =10.67 \approx 11

So the answer for this case would be n=11 rounded up to the nearest integer

Step-by-step explanation:

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 represent the sample mean for the sample  

\mu population mean (variable of interest)

\sigma =150 represent the population standard deviation

n represent the sample size  

Solution to the problem

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

\bar X \pm t_{\alpha/2}\frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}   (1)

The confidence interval for this case is given by: (740, 920)

We can find the estimate for the mean and we got:

\bar X = \frac{740+920}{2} = 830

and the margin of error is given by :

ME = \frac{920-740}{2}= 90

The margin of error is given by this formula:

ME=z_{\alpha/2}\frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}    (a)

And on this case we have that ME =90 and we are interested in order to find the value of n, if we solve n from equation (a) we got:

n=(\frac{z_{\alpha/2} s}{ME})^2   (b)

The critical value for 95% of confidence interval now can be founded using the normal distribution. And in excel we can use this formla to find it:"=-NORM.INV(0.025;0;1)", and we got z_{\alpha/2}=1.960, replacing into formula (b) we got:

n=(\frac{1.960(150)}{90})^2 =10.67 \approx 11

So the answer for this case would be n=11 rounded up to the nearest integer

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