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REY [17]
3 years ago
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The Wisconsin Dairy Association is interested in estimating the mean weekly consumption of milk for adults over the age of 18 in

that state. To do this, they have selected a random sample of 300 people from the designated population. The following results were recorded: Given this information, if the leaders wish to estimate the mean milk consumption with 90 percent confidence, what is the approximate margin of error in the estimate? Question 16 options: ±12.996 ounces ±0.75 ounce ±0.456 ounce z = 1.645

Mathematics
2 answers:
viktelen [127]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

The approximate margin of error in the estimate is ±0.75 ounces.

Step-by-step explanation:

<em>The question is incomplete:</em>

<em>The following results were recorded: xbar=34.5 ounces, s=7.9 ounces.</em>

The sample size is n=300.

We will use the sample standard deviation to estimate the population standard deviation, so we will use the t-statistic.

To develop a confidence interval, we first have to calculate the degrees of freedom, and then look up in a t-students distribution table the critical value for a 90% confidence interval.

The degrees of freedom are:

df=n-1=300-1=299

The critical value for a 90% CI is t=1.65.

Now, we can calculate the margin of error of the confidence interval as:

E=t\cdot s/\sqrt{n}=1.65*7.9/\sqrt{300}=13.035/17.32=0.75

The lower and upper bounds of the confidence interval will be:

LL=\bar x-t\cdot s/\sqrt{n}=34.5-0.75=33.75\\\\UL=\bar x+t\cdot s/\sqrt{n}=34.5+0.75=35.25

The confidence interval is (33.75, 35.25)

Stolb23 [73]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

ME = 1.653 *\frac{7.9}{\sqrt{300}}= \pm 0.75

±0.75 ounce

Step-by-step explanation:

Assuming this complete question: The Wisconsin Dairy Association is interested in estimating the mean weekly consumption of milk for adults over the age of 18 in that state. To do this, they have selected a random sample of 300 people from the designated population. The following results were recorded: xbar=34.5 ounces, s=7.9 ounces Given this information, if the leaders wish to estimate the mean milk consumption with 90 percent confidence, what is the approximate margin of error in the estimate?

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=34.5 represent the sample mean

\mu population mean (variable of interest)

s=7.9 represent the sample standard deviation

n=300 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)

In order to calculate the critical value t_{\alpha/2} we need to find first the degrees of freedom, given by:

df=n-1=300-1=299

Since the Confidence is 0.90 or 90%, the value of \alpha=0.1 and \alpha/2 =0.05, and we can use excel, a calculator or a table to find the critical value. The excel command would be: "=-T.INV(0.05,199)".And we see that t_{\alpha/2}=1.653

And the margin of error is given by:

ME = 1.653 *\frac{7.9}{\sqrt{300}}= \pm 0.75

±0.75 ounce

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