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This chapter discusses confidence intervals for means, proportions, and the difference between means and proportions. It provides formulas and examples for computing confidence intervals with various confidence levels such as 95% and 99%. It also includes tables of common z-score values and homework problems involving calculating confidence intervals using sample data. Confidence intervals allow us to estimate an unknown population parameter with a certain degree of confidence based on sample statistics.

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This chapter discusses confidence intervals for means, proportions, and the difference between means and proportions. It provides formulas and examples for computing confidence intervals with various confidence levels such as 95% and 99%. It also includes tables of common z-score values and homework problems involving calculating confidence intervals using sample data. Confidence intervals allow us to estimate an unknown population parameter with a certain degree of confidence based on sample statistics.

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Chapter 4

9.6 How large a sample is needed in Exercise 9.2 if we wish to be 96% confident that our sample mean will be
within 10 hours of the true mean?

𝒁𝟏−𝜶 . 𝝈 𝟐. 𝟎𝟓𝟓 (𝟒𝟎)


𝟐
𝟐 𝟐
𝒏=( ) = ( ) = 𝟔𝟕. 𝟐𝟒 ≈ 𝟔𝟖
𝒆 𝟏𝟎

“we always rounded the number up”

(b) What can we assert with 98% confidence about the possible size of our error if we estimate the mean
height of all college students to be 174.5 centimeters?

𝑺
The error will not exceed 𝒁𝟏−𝜶 = 𝟐. 𝟐𝟕𝟑𝟔
𝟐 √𝒏

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9.44 A taxi company is trying to decide whether to purchase brand "A" or brand "B" tires for its fleet of taxis
(‫)اسطول من سيارات التكسي‬. The experiment is conducted using 12 of each brand and the tires are run until they
wear out.

I) Compute a 99% confidence interval for μA – μB, assuming the populations to be approximately
normally. You may not assume that the variances are equal.

II) Find a 99% confidence interval for μA – μB if tires of the two brands are assigned at random to the
left and right rear wheels of 8 taxis and the following distances, in kilometers, are recorded:

Taxi Brand A Brand B


1 34,400 36,700
2 45,500 46,800
3 36,700 37,700
4 32,000 31,100
5 48,400 47,800
6 32,800 36,400
7 38,100 38,900
8 30,100 31,500

Assume that the differences of the distances are approximately normally distributed.

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Values of Z
𝒁𝟎.𝟗𝟎 1.285
𝒁𝟎.𝟗𝟓 1.645
𝒁𝟎.𝟗𝟕 1.885
𝒁𝟎.𝟗𝟕𝟓 1.96
𝒁𝟎.𝟗𝟖 2.055
𝒁𝟎.𝟗𝟗 2.325
𝒁𝟎.𝟗𝟗𝟓 2.575

H.W

9.52 Compute 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of defective items in a process when it is found that
a sample of size 100 yields 8 defectives. 𝐩 ∈ (𝟎. 𝟎𝟐𝟔𝟖 , 𝟎. 𝟏𝟑𝟑 )

9.66 Ten engineering schools in the United States were surveyed. The sample contained 250 electrical
engineers, 80 being women; 175 chemical engineers, 40 being women.
Compute a 90% confidence interval for the difference between the proportions of women in these two fields
of engineering. 𝐏𝟏 − 𝐏𝟐 ∈ (𝟎. 𝟎𝟐𝟎𝟏 , 𝟎. 𝟏𝟔𝟐𝟕)

H.W
Q. A survey of 500 students from a college of science shows that 275 students own computers. In another
independent survey of 400 students from a college of engineering shows that 240 students own computers.

(a) a 99% confidence interval for the true proportion of college of science's student who own computers is
( 𝟎. 𝟒𝟗𝟐𝟕, 𝟎. 𝟔𝟎𝟕𝟑)

(b) a 95% confidence interval for the difference between the proportions of students owning computers in the
two colleges is ( −𝟎. 𝟏𝟏𝟒𝟖, 𝟎. 𝟎𝟏𝟒𝟖)

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H.W
Q2. Suppose that we are interested in making some statistical inferences about the mean, , of a normal
population with standard deviation =2.0. Suppose that a random sample of size n=49 from this population
gave a sample mean X =4.5.

2
(1) The distribution of X is .𝑥̅ ~𝑁(4.5 , 𝑛 = 0.08 )
(2) A good point estimate of  is = 𝑿
̅ = 𝟒. 𝟓
̅) =  = 0.2875
(3) The standard error of X is = 𝐒. 𝐄(𝐗
√𝐧
(4) A 95% confidence interval for  is (𝟑. 𝟗𝟒 , 𝟓. 𝟎𝟔)
(5) If we use X to estimate , then we are 95% confident that our estimation error will not exceed.
𝒆 = 𝟎. 𝟓𝟔
(6) If we want to be 95% confident that the estimation error will not exceed e=0.1 when we use X to
estimate , then the sample size n must be equal to
𝒏 = 𝟏𝟓𝟑𝟕
H.W

df=n-1 =19

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