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1. A consumer watchdog organization estimates the mean weight of 1-ounce "Fun-Size" candy
bars to see if customers are getting full value for their money. A random sample of 25 bars is
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selected and weighed, and the organization reports that a 90% confidence interval for the true
mean weight of the candy bars is 0.992 to 0.998 ounces.

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getting in the first few months of school. She asks a simple random sample of 20 students^
how much sleep they got the previous night and constructs a 95% confidence interval for the
mean amount of sleep in hours.

I (a)lDiscuss whether this study meets the necessary conditions for constructing a confidence
••—^interval. If you think one of the conditions has not been met, what additional information
would be required or what change in the study would you recommend?

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1. Suppose you know that the distribution of finishing times for a certain crossword puzzle has
a mean of 25 minutes, a standard deviation of 8 minutes, and is moderately skewed left. You
take an SRS of 4_5_finish times from this distribution and calculate the mean finish time, x.

(a) Describe the shape, center, and spread of the sampling distribution of x.

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(b) Find a number, £, such that 95% of the values in the sampling distribution will lie within
k minutes of the mean of the distribution.

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(c) If you take repeated samples of size 45 from this population, what proportion of the time
will the interval x±k contain the number 25? Explain.

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appropriate term.

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3. An insect ecologist reports a 95% confidence interval for the mean length of full-grown
aquatic larvae of the Phantom Midge Chaoborus albatus to be 6.9 to 8.5 mm, based on a
sample of 9 individual larvae.

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interval were met." What does this tell you about his methods and about the population
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(c) If the ecologist had reported a 99% confidence interval instead of a 95% interval, how
would it have been different? Explain.

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