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MATH 225 Week 6 Confidence Intervals Questions and answers (2020) – Chamberlain College of Nursing Week 6 Questions on Confidence Intervals 1. On a busy Sunday morning, a waitress randomly sampled... customers about their preference for morning beverages, Specifically, she wanted to find out how many people preferred coffee over tea. The proportion of customers that preferred coffee was 0.42 with a margin of error 0.07. Construct a confidence interval for the proportion of customers that preferred coffee. (0.42 - 0.07), (0.42 + 0.07) = (0.35), (0.49) 2. A company sells juice in 1quart bottles. In a quality control test, the company found the mean volume of juice in a random sample of bottles was X = 31 ounces, with a marginal error of 3 ounces. Construct a confidence interval for the mean number of ounces of juice bottled by this company. (31-3), 31+3) = (28), (34) 3. Randomly selected employees at an office were asked to take part in a survey about overtime. The office manager wanted to find out how many employees worked overtime in the last week. The proportion of employees that worked overtime was 0.83, with a margin of error of 0.11. (0.83 – 0.11), (0.83 + 0.11) = (0.72), (0.94) 4. A random sample or garter snakes were measured, and the proportion of snakes that were longer than 20 inches in length recorded. The measurements resulted in a sample proportion of p = 0.25 with a sampling standard deviation of Op = 0.05. Write a 68% confidence interval for the true proportion of garter snakes that were over 20 inches in length. [Show More]

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