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COMM 207

Tutorial 4

- One-sample confidence intervals when the population standard deviation is known, or unknown
- The connection between confidence intervals and hypothesis tests
- Calculating the minimum required sample size
- Three examples illustrating all three of the above concepts

These questions are all inspired by questions in Bowerman, Aitken Schemer, Johnson and
O’Connell, Business Statistics, 3rd Canadian Edition, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2014.

Example 1 (based on exercise 9.6 part d)

Suppose that for a sample size of n=100 measurements, we find a sample mean of 50. Assuming
the population standard deviation is 2:

a) Calculate an 80% confidence interval for the population mean. Round your upper and lower
bounds to 1 decimal place.

b) What is the point estimate?

c) What is the margin of error?

Example 2 (based on exercise 9.7)

Consider the trash bag problem. Suppose that an independent laboratory has tested trash bags
and has found that no 30-litre bags that are currently on the market have a mean breaking
strength of 25 kg or more. On the basis of these results, the producer of the new, improved trash
bag feels sure that its 30-litre bag will be the strongest such bag on the market if the new trash
bag’s mean breaking strength can be shown to be at least 25 kg. The mean breaking strength of a
sample of 40 trash bags is found to be 25.575 kg, and the population standard deviation is known
to be 1.65.

a) Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the population mean breaking strength of all possible
trash bags of the new type. Round your final confidence interval to 3 decimal places.

b) Based on this 95 percent confidence interval, can we be 95% confident that the population
mean breaking strength of all possible trash bags of the new type exceeds 25 kg?

c) Would you reject the null hypothesis that the population mean breaking strength of all
possible trash bags of the new type is less than or equal to 25 kg at the 5% level of significance?
Why or why not?

d) Based on this 95 percent confidence interval, can we be 95% confident that the population
mean breaking strength of all possible trash bags of the new type is not different from 25 kg?
Example 3 (based on exercise 9.16 part d)

Suppose that for a sample of n=11 measurements, we find that the sample mean is 7.2 and the
sample standard deviation is 0.5. Assuming normality, compute:

a) A 90% confidence interval for the population mean. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

b) A 98% confidence interval for the population mean. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

c) Comment on the difference between these two intervals. Which one is wider, and why?

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