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DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Quantitative Methods (STAT3206)


1st Semester, 2022-2023
Name: ____________________________ Score: _____________
Course Yr & Section: _______________ Signature: __________

EXERCISE 5
Estimation
Instructions:
• Write your answer clearly and legibly on the space provided per item.
• Print this or use separate paper/s for the answers and solutions.
• Scan using a printer scanner (if available) or any mobile scanning application such as CAMSCANNER.
• This activity ought to be submitted in a SINGLE PDF FILE ONLY (you can use an online pdf merger to save your output
in a single PDF file)
• The file name must be STAT3206_EXER5_LAST NAME_FIRST NAME_MIDDLE INITIAL
(e.g. STAT3206_EXER5_FRANCISCO_GLYZEL GRACE_M).
• Round your answers to 4 decimal places

1. During December, the mean temperature was 24.9℃, with a standard deviation of 0.88. Construct a 95% confidence
interval.

2. A group of researchers wants to estimate the number of years it took for the college students to earn a 6-year
bachelor’s degrees. Construct a 90% confidence interval estimate of the mean time required for all college students to
earn a 6-year bachelor’s degrees. From 29 randomly selected students, the mean is 6.5 years with a standard deviation
of 0.45 years.

3. The operations manager of a large production plant would like to measure the amount of time (in minutes) a worker
takes to assemble a new electronic component. The observed data by the manager are 5.31, 3.32, 3.64, 4.07, 3.98,
4.52, 3.81, 4.70, 8.92. Estimate the mean and standard deviation and construct a 99% confidence interval.

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