Questions from Business Statistics


Q: A National Vital Statistics Report (www.cdc.gov/

A National Vital Statistics Report (www.cdc.gov/nchs/) provides information on deaths by age, sex, and race. Below are displays of the distributions of ages at death for White and Black males: 1. Desc...

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Q: Describe how the critical value of t for a 95% confidence

Describe how the critical value of t for a 95% confidence interval changes as the number of degrees of freedom increases.

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Q: The housing market recovered slowly from the economic crisis of 2008.

The housing market recovered slowly from the economic crisis of 2008. Recently, in one large community, realtors randomly sampled 36 bids from potential buyers to estimate the average loss in home val...

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Q: In the previous exercise, you found a 95% confidence interval

In the previous exercise, you found a 95% confidence interval to estimate the average loss in home value. 1. Suppose the standard deviation of the losses had been $3000 instead of $1500. What would th...

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Q: For the confidence interval you found in Exercise 11 , interpret this

For the confidence interval you found in Exercise 11 , interpret this interval and explain what 95% confidence means in this context.

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Q: A survey finds that a 95% confidence interval for the mean

A survey finds that a 95% confidence interval for the mean salary of a police patrol officer in Fresno, California, in 2016 is $52,516 to $53,509. A student is surprised that so few police officers ma...

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Q: Livestock are given a special feed supplement to see if it will

Livestock are given a special feed supplement to see if it will promote weight gain. Researchers report that the 77 cows studied gained an average of 56 pounds, and that a 95% confidence interval for...

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Q: Software analysis of the salaries of a random sample of 288 Nevada

Software analysis of the salaries of a random sample of 288 Nevada teachers produced the confidence interval shown below. Which conclusion is correct? What wrong with the others? 1. t-interval for μ:...

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Q: Chapter 2, Exercise 16 showed the histogram of the European shoe

Chapter 2, Exercise 16 showed the histogram of the European shoe sizes from a sample of 269 college students. Looking at the men only, a 95% confidence interval for the mean shoe size shows: The stude...

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Q: The LSAT (a test taken for law school admission) has

The LSAT (a test taken for law school admission) has a mean score of 151 with a standard deviation of 9 and a unimodal, symmetric distribution of scores. A test preparation organization teaches small...

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