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vitfil [10]
3 years ago
7

A forestry researcher wants to estimate the average height of trees in a forest near Atlanta, Georgia. She takes a random sample

of 18 trees from this forest. The researcher found that the average height was 4.8 meters with a standard deviation of 0.55 meters. Assume that the distribution of the heights of these trees is normal. For this sample what is the margin of error for her 99% confidence interval
Mathematics
1 answer:
marusya05 [52]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

The margin of error for her confdence interval is of 0.3757.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have the standard deviation for the sample, which means that the t-distribution is used to solve this question.

The first step to solve this problem is finding how many degrees of freedom, we have. This is the sample size subtracted by 1. So

df = 18 - 1 = 17

99% confidence interval

Now, we have to find a value of T, which is found looking at the t table, with 17 degrees of freedom(y-axis) and a confidence level of 1 - \frac{1 - 0.99}{2} = 0.995. So we have T = 2.8982

The margin of error is:

M = T\frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}

In which s is the standard deviation of the sample and n is the size of the sample.

Standard deviation of 0.55 meters.

This means that s = 0.55

What is the margin of error for her 99% confidence interval?

M = T\frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}

M = 2.8982\frac{0.55}{\sqrt{18}}

M = 0.3757

The margin of error for her confdence interval is of 0.3757.

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