A weather balloon is 529 meters above the ground. Two weather stations, A and B, monitor the balloon’s progress. Compare the mea
sures of the different angles of elevation and depression that are labeled in the diagram. Which statements are true? Check all that apply.
2 answers:
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Answer:
a) The 99% confidence interval would be given by (24.409;24.979)
b) n=464
Step-by-step explanation:
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".
Part a
The confidence interval for the mean is given by the following formula:
(1)
In order to calculate the critical value we need to find first the degrees of freedom, given by:
Since the Confidence is 0.95 or 95%, the value of and
, and we can use excel, a calculator or a table to find the critical value. The excel command would be: "=-T.INV(0.025,46)".And we see that
Now we have everything in order to replace into formula (1):
So on this case the 95% confidence interval would be given by (503.01;546.99)
Part b
The margin of error is given by this formula:
(1)
And on this case we have that ME =7 msec, we are interested in order to find the value of n, if we solve n from equation (1) we got:
(2)
The critical value for 95% of confidence interval is provided, from part a, replacing into formula (2) we got:
So the answer for this case would be n=464 rounded up to the nearest integer