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Practice Problem Set Interval Estimation

The document presents a series of practice problems related to sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and statistical estimates across various scenarios, including massage therapy costs, airport ratings, college graduate salaries, and more. Each question requires the application of statistical methods to derive confidence intervals, margins of error, and sample sizes based on provided data. The problems emphasize practical applications of statistical concepts in real-world contexts.

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Practice Problem Set Interval Estimation

The document presents a series of practice problems related to sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and statistical estimates across various scenarios, including massage therapy costs, airport ratings, college graduate salaries, and more. Each question requires the application of statistical methods to derive confidence intervals, margins of error, and sample sizes based on provided data. The problems emphasize practical applications of statistical concepts in real-world contexts.

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Sampling Distribution: Practice Problems

October 18, 2024

Q1 Studies show that massage therapy has a variety of health benefits and is
not too expensive. A sample of 10 typical one-hour massage therapy sessions
showed an average charge of $59. The population standard deviation for a
one-hour session is σ = $5.50.

(a) Construct 95% confidence interval and the corresponding margin of error.
(b) Using 99% confidence, what is the margin of error?

Q2 The International Air Transport Association surveys business travelers to de-


velop quality ratings for transatlantic gateway airports. The maximum possible
rating is 10. Suppose a simple random sample of 50 business travelers is se-
lected and each traveler is asked to provide a rating for the Miami International
Airport. The ratings are as follows:

6 4 6 8 7 7 6 3 3 8 10 4 8
7 8 7 5 9 5 8 4 3 8 5 5 4
4 4 8 4 5 6 2 5 9 9 8 4 8
9 9 5 9 7 8 3 10 8 9 6

Develop a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population mean rating for
Miami.

Q3 Annual starting salaries for college graduates with degrees in business admin-
istration are generally expected to be between $40, 000 and $57, 800. Assume

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that a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population mean annual starting
salary is desired.

(a) What is the population standard deviation if 50 graduates are chosen for
the study?
(b) How large a sample should be taken if the desired margin of error is $600
with the same variability?
(c) How large a sample should be taken if the desired margin of error is $100
with the same variability?
(d) Would you recommend trying to obtain the $100 margin of error? Explain.

Q4 For a class project, a political science student at a large university wants to


estimate the percentage of students who are registered voters. He surveys
500 students and finds that 300 are registered voters. Compute a 90 percent
confidence interval for the true percentage of students who are registered voters,
and interpret the confidence interval.

Q5 An investigator working for a national programme of immunization seeks to


estimate the proportion of children in the country who are receiving appropriate
childhood vaccinations. How many children must be studied if the resulting
estimate is to fall within 10% of the true proportion with 95% confidence?

Q6 Amazon.com is testing the use of drones to deliver packages for same-day de-
livery. In order to quote narrow time windows, the variability in delivery times
must be sufficiently small. Consider a sample of 24 drone deliveries with a
sample variance of s2 = 0.81.

(a) Construct a 90% confidence interval estimate of the population variance


for the drone delivery time.
(b) Construct a 90% confidence interval estimate of the population standard
deviation for the drone delivery time.

Q7 A large candy manufacturer produces, packages and sells packs of candy tar-
geted to weigh 52 grams. A quality control manager working for the company

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was concerned that the variation in the actual weights of the targeted 52-gram
packs was larger than acceptable. That is, he was concerned that some packs
weighed significantly less than 52-grams and some weighed significantly more
than 52 grams. In an attempt to estimate σ, the standard deviation of the
weights of all of the 52-gram packs the manufacturer makes, he took a random
sample of n = 10 packs off of the factory line. The random sample yielded a
sample variance of 4.2 grams. Use the random sample to derive a 95% confi-
dence interval for σ.

Q8 A machine produces a component of a product with a standard deviation of


1.6 cm in length. A random sample of 64 components was selected from the
output and this sample has a mean length of 90 cm. The customer will reject
the part if it is either less than 88 cm or more than 92 cm. Does the 95%
confidence interval for the true mean length of all the components produced
ensure acceptance by the customer?

Q9 A book publisher is interested in estimating the strength of the book bind-


ings produced by a particular binding machine. Strength can be measured by
recording the force (measured in lbs) required to pull the pages from the bind-
ing. How many books should be tested to estimate the average force required
to break the binding to within 0.1 lb with 95% confidence? Assume that σ is
known to be 0.8 lb and that strength of book bindings is normally distributed.

Q10 Business problem: A wine can be labeled as quality 7 and above only if the
alcohol level is greater than 11.3. If the level of alcohol is less, then the will
won’t taste sour enough, if the alcohol level is less than 11.3 then the wine
might be bitter.
The price difference between quality 7 & 8 wine and quality 5 & 6 wine will
be as much as 125%. So the company needs to be very particular to maintain
this standard.
The quality control person is only allowed to open 10 bottles of wine in quality
7 & 8 to make sure the levels are sufficient. So here is the 10 samples that the
manager took:

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Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Alcohol 12 12.5 11.7 14 12.7 12.1 11 10 10.8 9.7

(a) What is the mean and standard deviation of the sample?


(b) Now remember, our goal was to get a mean of 11.3. Does this batch
of sample accurately reflect the alcohol content of the entire population?
How can we determine that?
(c) Given that the quality checking person is drawing a sample of 10 wines of
quality 7 & 8, he assumes that the sample batch meets the alcohol level
of 11.3, but he know that it is acceptable until the batch alcohol mean
level drops to 11.87. What is the the probability that the batch will have
the sample mean of less than 11.87?
(d) Taking a random sample of 13 observations, what is the sample proportion
of having alcohol level of greater than 11.87?

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