MATHEDA

Week 6
1. What is the difference between a point estimate and an interval estimate of a parameter?
Which is better?
2. What information is necessary to calculate a confidence interval?
3. What is the maximum error of the estimate?
4. What is meant by the 95% confidence interval of the mean?
5. What are the three properties of a good estimator?
6. What statistic best estimates mu?
7. What is necessary to determine the sample size?
8. In determining the sample size for a confidence interval, is the size of each of the population
relevant?
9. Find each za/2 for the 99% confidence interval
10. Number of faculty. The number of faculty a 32 randomly selected state-controlled colleges and
universities with enrollment under 12,000 students are shown below. Use these data to
estimate the mean number of faculty at all state-controlled colleges and universities with
enrollment under 12,000 with 92% confidence. Assume o=165.1
211 384 396 211 224 337 395 121 356

621 367 408 515 280 289 180 431 176
318 836 203 374 224 121 412 134 539
471 628 425 159 324
11. Reading scores. A sample of the reading scores of 35 fifth-graders has a mean of 82. The
standard deviation of the population is 15
a. Find the best point estimate of the mean
b. Find the 95% confidence interval of the mean reading scores of all fifth-graders
c. Find the 99% confidence interval if the mean reading scores of all fifth-graders
d. Which interval is larger? Explain why.
13) Worker’s distractions a recent study showed that the modern working person experiences an
average of 2.1 hours per day of distractions (phone calls, e-mails, impromptu visits, etc.). A
random sample of 50 workers for a large corporation found that these workers were distracted
and average of 1.8 hours per day and the population standard deviation was 20 minutes.
Estimate the true mean population distraction time with 90% confidence, and compare your
answer to the results of the study.
23 chocolate chips per cookie it is desired to estimate the mean number of chocolate chips per
cookie for a large national brand. How many cookies would have to be sampled to estimate the true
mean number of chips per cookie within 2 chips with 98% confidence? Assume that o=10.1 chips.
26 commuting times in New York. The 90% confidence interval for the mean one-way commuting
time in New York city is 37.8<mu<38.8 minutes. Construct a 95% confidence interval based on the
same data which interval provides more information?
Week 7
1. What are the properties of the t distribution?

2. What is meant by the degrees of freedom?
3. When should the t distribution be used to find a confidence interval for the mean?
4. Find the values for each
a. Ta/s and n=18 for the 99% confidence interval for the mean.
5. Hemoglobin. The average hemoglobin reading for a sample of 20 teachers was 16 grams per 100
milliliters, with a sample standard deviation of 2 grams. Find the 99% confidence interval of the
true mean.
21 a one-sided confidence interval can be found for a mean by using
Where ta is the value found under the row labeled one tail. Find two-sided 95% confidence intervals
the population mean for the data shown, and interpret the answers. The data represent the daily
revenues in dollars from 20 parking meters in a small municipality.
2.60 1.05 2.45 2.90

1.30 3.10 2.35 2.00
2.40 2.35 2.40 1.95
2.80 2.50 2.10 1.75
1.00 2.75 1.80 1.95
7-3
1. In each case, find p^ and q^

b. N=130 and X=60
2. Find p^ and q^ for each percentage. (use each percentage for p^)
c. 71%
8. Travel to outer space. A CBS News/ New York times poll found that 329 out of 763 adults said
they would travel to outer space in their lifetime, given the chance. Estimate the true proportion of
adults who would like to travel to outer space with 92% confidence.
15. vitamins for women. A medical researcher wishes to determine the percentage of females who
take vitamins. He wishes to be 99% confident that the estimate within 2 percentage points of the
true proportion. A recent study of 180 females showed that 25% took vitamins.
a. how large should the sample size be?
b. if no estimate of the sample proportion is available, how large should the sample be?
18. obesity. Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 3kg/m^2 or more. A 95% confidence
interval for the percentage of u.s. adults aged 20 years and over who were obese was found to be
22.4 to 23.5%. what was the sample size?
22. survey on politics. In a study, 68% of 1015 adults said that they believe the republicans favor the
rich. If the margin of error was 3 percentage points, what was the confidence interval used for the
proportion?
Week 8
1. What distribution must be used when computing confidence intervals for the variances and
standard deviations?
2. What assumption must be mad when computing confidence intervals for variances and standard
deviations?
3. Using table G, find the values for
a.
6. Battery lives. Find the 99% confidence interval for the variance and standard deviation of the
weights of 25 one-gallon containers of motor oil if a sample of 14 containers has a variance of
3.2. The weights are given in ounces. Assume the variable is normally distributed.
11. Oil changes. A service station advertises that customers will have to wait no more than 30
minutes for an oil change. A sample of 28 oil changes has a standard deviation of 5.2 minutes.
Find the 95% confidence interval of the population standard deviation of the time spent waiting
for an oil change.
Review exercises
13. Baseball diameters. The standard deviation of the diameter of 18 baseballs was 0.29cm. find the
95% confidence interval of the true standard deviation of the diameters of the baseballs. Do you
think the manufacturing process should be checked for inconsistency?
Chapter quiz
Determine whether each statement is true or false. If the statement is false, explain why.
1. Interval estimates are preferred over point estimates since a confidence level can be specified.
2. For a specific confidence interval, the larger the sample size, the smaller the maximum error of
the estimate will be.
3. An estimator is consistent if, as the sample size decreases, the value of the estimator
approaches the value of the parameter estimated.
4. To determine the sample size needed to estimate a parameter, you must know the maximum
error of the estimate.
Select the best answer
5. When a 99% confidence interval is calculated instead of a 95% confidence interval with n being
the same, the maximum error of estimate will be
a. Smaller
b. Larger
c. The same
d. It cannot be determined
6. The best point estimate of the population mean is
a. The sample mean
b. The sample median
c. The sample mode
d. The sample midrange
7. When the population standard deviation is unknown and the sample size is less than 30, what
table value should be used in computing a confidence interval for a mean?
a. Z
b. T
c. Chi-square
d. None of the above
Data projects
6. Your class. Have each student compute his or her body mass index (BMI) (703 times weight in
pounds, divided by the quantity height in inches squared). Find the mean and standard deviation
for the data set. Compute a 95% confidence interval for the mean BMI of a student. A BMI score
over 30 is considered obese. Does the confidence interval indicate that the mean for BMI could
be in the obese range?

MATHEDA

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

MATHEDA

Uploaded by

Document Information

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

MATHEDA

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Week 6

211 384 396 211 224 337 395 121 356

1. What are the properties of the t distribution?

21 a one-sided confidence interval can be found for a mean by using

2.60 1.05 2.45 2.90

1. In each case, find p^ and q^

a. how large should the sample size be?

3. Using table G, find the values for

Select the best answer

You might also like