Answer:
a)We are 95% confident that the average commuting time for route A is between 1.3577 and 4.6423 minutes shorter than the average committing time for rout B.
(b) No, because the confidence internal does not contain —5, which corresponds with an average of 5 minutes shorter for route A.
Step-by-step explanation:
Given:
n_1 = 20
x_1= 40
s_1 = 3
n_2 = 20
x_2= 43
s_2 = 2
d_f = 33.1
c = 95%. 0.95
(a) Determine the t-value by looking in the row starting with degrees of freedom df = 33.1 > 32 and in the column with c = 95% in the Student's t distribution table in the appendix:
t
/2 = 2.037
The margin of error is then:
E = t
/2 *√s_1^2/n_1+s_2^2/n_2
E = 2.037 *√3^2/20+s_2^2/20
= 1.64
The endpoints of the confidence interval for u_1 — u_2 are:
(x_1 — x_2) — E = (40 — 43) — 1.6423 = —3 — 1.6423= —4.6423
(x_1 - x_2) + E = (40 — 43) + 1.6423 = —3 + 1.6423= —1.3577
a)We are 95% confident that the average commuting time for route A is between 1.3577 and 4.6423 minutes shorter than the average committing time for rout B.
(b) No, because the confidence internal does not contain —5, which corresponds with an average of 5 minutes shorter for route A.
Answer: The 2/9 should have been simplified to 2/3. Then multiply 1/7 and 2/3 to find the product, 2/21
You have to "simplify" both factors at the same time before moving on to multiplying them.
Step-by-step explanation:
Another way to do this is to multiply straight across 3/7 × 2/9 to get 6/63 then notice that the numerator and denominator are both multiples of 3.
Simplify by dividing numerator and denominator by 3 to get 2/21
An easy way to understand this is to think of it as quarters (like the money). A quarter is $0.25 and it takes 4 quarters to equal one dollar ($1.00). This being said, 1 quarter would be 1/4 of a dollar (0.25), 2 quarters would be 2/4 of a dollar (or 1/2 if you simplify it) (0.50), 3 quarters would be 3/4 of a dollar (0.75), and 4 quarters would be 4/4 (or 1 when you simplify it) of a dollar. You can convert this into decimals by making it 2 - 1.25 which would equal 0.75 (3/4).
Hope this helps!