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Confidence Intervals Worksheet Large Sample Sizes

This document provides examples of calculating confidence intervals from sample data for percentages, means, and proportions. [1] A 95% confidence interval is calculated for the percentage of males at a university who feel college is easier than high school based on a sample of 100 males where 72% felt that way. [2] A 90% confidence interval is determined for the mean difference between reported and actual heights of 35 elderly people sampled in Sarasota, Florida. [3] A 98% confidence interval is found for the proportion of 40 randomly selected students who reported regularly smoking cigarettes, where 9 students said they smoked.

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Confidence Intervals Worksheet Large Sample Sizes

This document provides examples of calculating confidence intervals from sample data for percentages, means, and proportions. [1] A 95% confidence interval is calculated for the percentage of males at a university who feel college is easier than high school based on a sample of 100 males where 72% felt that way. [2] A 90% confidence interval is determined for the mean difference between reported and actual heights of 35 elderly people sampled in Sarasota, Florida. [3] A 98% confidence interval is found for the proportion of 40 randomly selected students who reported regularly smoking cigarettes, where 9 students said they smoked.

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CONFIDENCE INTERVALS WORKSHEET

LARGE SAMPLE SIZES

Please note that all of this data is fiction (usually our problems use real-life data).

1. A survey is taken of males in a large state University using a SRS. 72% of the
100 males reported that college was easier than high school. Create a 95%
confidence interval for the true percentage of males at the University who feel
college is easier than high school.

2. Thirty-five elderly people from Sarasota, Florida were randomly sampled to


determine the difference between their reported height and actual height. The
mean difference was 3 inches with a standard deviation of 2.4. Find a 90%
confidence interval for the true mean difference between reported and actual
heights for the elderly in Sarasota, Florida. Can we generalize this finding to all
people in the United States? Why or why not?

3. Forty randomly selected students were asked if they smoked cigarettes regularly,
9 of them said they did. Find a 98% confidence interval for the true proportion of
students who smoke regularly.

4. Why is it important for the sample sizes to be large?

5. Why is it important for the samples to be chosen randomly?


6. 200 single people in the United States 1040s are randomly selected. The mean
income of these people is found to be $28,000 with a standard deviation of
$40,000. Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean income of single people in
the United States.

7. Twelve out of 1000 randomly selected people were found to be carriers of a


particular virus. Find a 99% confidence interval for the true percentage of carriers
in the population.

8. Think of a quantitative item to create a confidence interval for. Ask your


classmates to answer the question. Create a 95% confidence interval. What
issues would a statistician have with your conclusion?

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