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at. How many pounds of chocolate chips does she have now?
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radius^2 = 40^2 + 9^2
radius^2 = 1,600 + 81
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radius = 41
radius^2 = 40^2 + 9^2
radius^2 = 1,600 + 81
radius^2 = 1,681
radius = 41
A suitable probability calculator will tell you that probabilty is about 25.9%.
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The normalcdf function on this calculator gives an area between a lower and upper limit. If the upper limit is more than about 8 standard deviations above the mean, the 10th decimal place is unaffected. Since the standard deviation here is about 5, we need to have an upper limit that is about 40 above the mean of about 30. We have chosen 80 as a nice round number and to give a little more margin.
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For this case we can find the margin of error like this:
Since we need to divide the width of the interval by 2.
And now with the margin of error we can find the sample mean with any of the two following ways:
So for this case the correct answer would be:
A. Sample Mean = 13.7; Margin of Error = 1.1
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".
Solution to the problem
The confidence interval for the mean is given by the following formula:
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In order to calculate the critical value we need to find first the degrees of freedom, given by:
We know that the confidence interval is given by:
For this case we can find the margin of error like this:
Since we need to divide the width of the interval by 2.
And now with the margin of error we can find the sample mean with any of the two following ways:
So for this case the correct answer would be:
A. Sample Mean = 13.7; Margin of Error = 1.1