The Whistle Stop Cafe in Weems, Georgia, is well known for it's popular homemade icecream. 12. For the demand data in Problem 11, develop a seasonally adjusted forecast for 2006. (Use a linear trend line model to develop a forecast estimate for 2006.) Which forecast model do you perceive to be accurate: the exponential smooth
Preliminary estimated suggest that about 58% of students at a state university favor implementing an honor code. To obtain a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of all students at the university favoring the honor code, what is the minimum sample size needed if the total width of the confidence interval must be less than
2. We are interested in purchasing a large collection of Palm M515 PDAs but need to have a general idea of how much we must pay for budgetary purposes. Thus, we will construct a confidence interval on the purchase price and in doing so we will assume that selling prices are close to being normally distributed. A sample of selli
Assume you need to build a confidence interval for a population mean within some given situation. Naturally, you must determine whether you should use either the t-distribution or the z-distribution or possibly even neither based upon the information known/collected in the situation. Thus, based upon the given information for
Please help with the following. Confidence Interval for Effect of Birth Weight on IQ Score: When investigating a relationship between birth weight and IQ, researchers found that 258 subjects with extremely low birth weights (less than 1000 g) had Wechsler IQ scores at age 8 with a mean of 95.5 and a standard deviation of
Biting an unpopped kernel of popcorn hurts! As an experiment, a self-confessed connoisseur of cheap popcorn carefully counted 773 kernels and put them in a popper. After popping, the unpopped kernels were counted. There were 86. (a) Construct a 90 percent confidence interval for the proportion of all kernels that would not p
A sample of 20 pages was taken without replacement from the 1,591-page phone directory Ameritech Pages Plus Yellow Pages. On each page, the mean area devoted to display ads was measured (a display ad is a large block of multicolored illustrations, maps, and text). The data (in square millimeters) are shown below: 0 260 356
Survey of 60 showed the sample mean is 2.76 and the standard deviation is 0.75. Construct a confidence interval of 90 and 97% for the population mean.
(a) Use Chebyshev's theorem to find what percent of the values will fall between 120 and 150 for a data set with mean of 135 and standard deviation of 7.5. (b) Use the Empirical Rule to find what two values 95% of the data will fall between for a data set with mean 234 and standard deviation of 12.
A study of 200 apples trees showed that the average number of apples per tree was 1000. The standard deviation of the population is 200. Which of the following is the 98% confidence interval for the mean number for all apples. a. (967.1, 1032.9) b. (963.8, 1036.2) c. (963.6, 1036.4) d. (972.3, 1027.7)
A recent poll of 700 people who worked indoors found that 278 of them smoke. If the researchers want to be 98% confident of thier results to within 3.5 %, how large a sample is necessary. a. 1062 b. 532 c. 751 d. 1301
It was found that in a sample of 90 teenage boys, 70 % of them have received speeding tickets. What is the 90% confidence interval of the true proportion of teenage boys who have received speeding tickets? a. 0.591 < p < 0.812 b. 0.615 < p < 0.805 c. 0.620 < p < 0.780 d. 0.584 < p < 0.830
What is the 95% confidence interval for the standard deviation of birth weights at County General Hospital, if the standard deviation of the last 25 babies born there was 1.1 pounds. a. 0.7 < o < 2.3 b. 0.9 < o < 1.5 c. 0.8 < o < 2.1 d. 0.8 < o < 1.9
A study of 80 white mice showed that their average weight was 3.7 ounces. The standard deviation of the population is 0.6 ounces. What is the 95% confidence interval for the mean weight per white mice?
I would like help with the following exercises for future reference and a better overall understanding. Thanks! 1. The Los Angeles sheriff classifies crimes by age (in years) of the criminal and whether the crime is violent or nonviolent. As shown below, the sheriff reported a total of 150 crimes last year. Age (in years)
Please help with the following problems involving confidence intervals. 1. Find the point estimate p-hat and the margin of error for the confidence interval (0.444, 0.484) 2 With destructive testing, sample items are destroyed in the process of testing them. Crash testing of cars is one very expensive example of destruct
Please see attached. If you can help me with the details of the nine attached questions...with detailed formulas and solutions, I really would appreciate it. 1. Of 139 adults selected randomly from one town, 30 of them smoke. a. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the true percentage of all adults in the town that
Please see attached worksheet. If you can give me detailed formulas with answers it would be great. 1. The local Tupperware dealers earned these commissions last month: $4377.47 $3183.76 $1970.16 $2270.88 $3860.06 $2508.55 $1569.64 $4205.30 $1663.68 $3960.71 Assuming the population for the amount of commissions ea
The manager of the Inlet Square Mall, just north of Ft. Meyers, Florida, wants to estimate the mean amount spent per shopping visit by customers. A sample of 20 customers reveals the following amounts spent: (Data in the excel file). What is the best estimate of the population mean? Determine a 95 percent confidence interval.
1. Find the 90 percent confidence interval for the standard deviation of gasoline mileage mpg for these 16 San Francisco commuters driving hybrid gas-electric vehicles. 38.8 48.9 28.5 40.0 38.8 29.2 29.1 38.5 34.4 46.1 51.8 30.7 36.9 25.6 42.7 38.3 2. Biting an un-popped kernel of popcorn hurts! As an experiment, a self
Let's assume that the family size factor for the class was collected from randomly selected students taking Elements of Statistics from FHSU?even though we know the data was not randomly collected from such students. a. First, determine from this sample data the proportion (percentage) of students from families of si
1. Suppose that A and B are independent events such that P (A bar) = 0.50 and P (B) = 0.70. Find P ( A intersection B) and P (AUB) . 2. Let A and B be two events such that P(A)= 0.20 and P(B) = 0.05. . (a) Determine P (AUB) , given that A and B are mutually exclusive . (b) Determine P (A
8.46 A random sample of 10 miniature Tootsie Rolls was taken from a bag. Each piece was weighed on a very accurate scale. The results in grams were 3.087, 3.131, 3.241, 3.241, 3.270, 3.353, 3.400, 3.411, 3.437, 3.477 (a) Construct a 90 percent confidence interval for the true mean weight. (b) What sample size would be necessar
(21) The U.S. Commission of Crime wishes to estimate the fraction of crimes related to firearms in an area with one of the highest crime rates in the country. The commission randomly selects 600 files of recently committed crimes in an area and finds 380 in which a firearm was reportedly used. Construct the 95% confidence interv
The lifetime of a certain brand of electric light bulb is known to have a standard deviation of 49 hours. Suppose that a random sample of 50 bulbs of this brand has a mean lifetime of 491 hours. Find a 95% confidence interval for the true mean lifetime of all light bulbs of this brand. Then complete the table below. Carry yo
A random sample of 18 health maintenance organizations(HMOs) was selected. For each HMO, the co-payment(in dollars for a doctor's office visit was recorded. The results are as follows: 6, 12, 7,7,11,9,5,10,12,9,11,12,8,8,5,7,5,8. See the attached file for further details. Under the assumption that co-payment amounts are
Find a confidence interval for mean assuming that each sample is from a normal population. a. ¯x = 24, s = 3, n = 7, 90 percent confidence b. ¯x = 42, s = 6, n = 18, 99 percent confidence c. ¯x = 119, s = 14, n = 28, 95 percent confidence
Prof. Hardtack gave three exams last semester in a large lecture class. The standard deviation s = 7 was the same on all three exams, and scores were normally distributed. Below are scores for 10 randomly chosen students on each exam. Find the 95 percent confidence interval for the mean score on each exam. Do the confidence inte
1) A food inspector, examining 5 jars of a certain brand of peanut butter, obtained the following percentages of impurities: 2.3; 1.9; 2.1; 2.8; 2.3 Assuming that such determinations are normally distributed, construct a 99% confidence interval for the average percentage of impurities in this brand of peanut butter. 2)
1.When you draw a sample from a normal distribution, what can you conclude about the sample distribution? Explain. 2.A mayoral election race is tightly contested. In a random sample of 1,100 likely voters, 572 said that they were planning to vote for the current mayor. Based on this sample, what is your initial hunch? Would y