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A doctor wants to estimate the mean HDL cholesterol of all 20- to 29-year-old females. The number of subjects needed to estima

Ludmilka [50]

Answer:

$n=(\frac{1.64(14.7)}{3})^2 =64.57 \approx 65$

So the answer for this case would be n=65 rounded up to the nearest integer

And the sample size would decrease by 160-65=95 subjects

Step-by-step explanation:

1) 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

ME represent the margin of error

The confidence interval for the mean is given by the following formula:

$\bar X \pm t_{\alpha/2}\frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}$ (1)

2) Solution to the problem

Since the new 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: "=-NORM.INV(0.05,0,1)".And we see that $z_{\alpha/2}=1.64$

Assuming that the deviation is known we can express 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 =\pm 3 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)

Replacing into formula (b) we got:

$n=(\frac{1.64(14.7)}{3})^2 =64.57 \approx 65$

So the answer for this case would be n=65 rounded up to the nearest integer

And the sample size would decrease by 160-65=95 subjects

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3 years ago

Is the product of 12 and 3/4 more or less than 12?

faust18 [17]

Less, 12 x 3/4 is 9 as you take 12/4 which is 3 times 3, which gives you 9

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3 years ago

Ann studied the effects of watching television on time spent exercising

34kurt

The response variable in the study that Ann has done here can be said to be Time spent exercising.

<h3>What is a response variable?</h3>

This is the name that is used to refer to the dependent variable. This is the variable that is of interest in the study. The goal is to see the changes that occurs in the particular variable based on the actions that another variable would have such as the independent variable.

From this we can see that The response variable in the study that Ann has done here can be said to be Time spent exercising.