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Serggg [28]
3 years ago
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A researcher wants to determine an interval estimate for the average weight of all gorillas (in pounds). She wants to be 95% cer

tain that she is within 5 pounds of the true average. From past studies, it is known that the standard deviation of the weights of gorillas is 11.6 pounds. How many gorillas should she sample to achieve these results?(a) What is the critical value that corresponds to the given level of confidence? Round to two decimals.(b) What is the minimum sample size necessary to estimate the population mean?
Mathematics
1 answer:
Korolek [52]3 years ago
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Answer:

a) Since the Confidence is 0.95 or 95%, the value of \alpha=0.05 and \alpha/2 =0.025, and we can use excel, a calculator or a table to find the critical value. The excel command would be: "=-NORM.INV(0.025,0,1)".And we see that z_{\alpha/2}=1.96

b) The margin of error is given by this formula:

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

And on this case we have that ME =5 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} \sigma}{ME})^2   (b)

And replacing we have:

n=(\frac{1.960(11.6)}{5})^2 =20.67 \approx 21

So the answer for this case would be n=21 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)

s represent the sample standard deviation

n represent the sample size  

Part a

Since the Confidence is 0.95 or 95%, the value of \alpha=0.05 and \alpha/2 =0.025, and we can use excel, a calculator or a table to find the critical value. The excel command would be: "=-NORM.INV(0.025,0,1)".And we see that z_{\alpha/2}=1.96

Part b

The margin of error is given by this formula:

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

And on this case we have that ME =5 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} \sigma}{ME})^2   (b)

And replacing we have:

n=(\frac{1.960(11.6)}{5})^2 =20.67 \approx 21

So the answer for this case would be n=21 rounded up to the nearest integer

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