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Step-by-step explanation:
You need to pay very close attention to the triangle similarity statement. This says that triangle NML is similar to triangle NVU. But if you look at the way that triangle NVU is oriented in its appearance, it's laying on its side. We need to set it upright so that angle N is the vertex angle, angle V is the base angle on the left, and angle U is the base angle on the right. When we do that we see that sides NV and NM are corresponding and exist in a ratio to one another; likewise with sides VU and ML. Setting up the proportion:
Filling in:
Cross multiply to get
324 = 108x
and x = 3
Answer:
a. The point estimate was of $44,600.
b. The sample size was of 16.
Step-by-step explanation:
Confidence interval concepts:
A confidence interval has two bounds, a lower bound and an upper bound.
A confidence interval is symmetric, which means that the point estimate used is the mid point between these two bounds, that is, the mean of the two bounds.
The margin of error is the difference between the two bounds, divided by 2.
a. What is the point estimate of the mean salary for all college graduates in this town?
Mean of the bounds, so:
(38737+50463)/2 = 44600.
The point estimate was of $44,600.
b. Determine the sample size used for the analysis.
First we need to find the margin of error, so:
Relating the margin of error with the sample size:
We have that to find our level, that is the subtraction of 1 by the confidence interval divided by 2. So:
Now, we have to find z in the Z-table as such z has a p-value of .
That is z with a pvalue of , so Z = 1.64.
Now, find the margin of error M as such
In which is the standard deviation of the population and n is the size of the sample.
For this problem, we have that . So
The sample size was of 16.