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The SEC requires companies to file annual reports concerning their financial status. It is impossible to audit every account receivable. Suppose we audit a random sample of 49 accounts receivable invoices and find a sample average of $128 and a sample standard deviation of $53.

a) Find a 99% confidence interval for the mean size of an accounts receivable invoice. Does your answer require that the sizes of the accounts receivable invoices follow a normal distribution?

b) How large a sample do we need if we want to be 99% sure that we can estimate the mean invoice size within $5?

c) Take new sample size of 100, with sample mean equal to $210 and sample standard deviation of $24. Compute 99.8% confidence interval. Then, how large a sample size do we need to be sure of that 99.8% mean to within 5$?
Compare and contrast the results of a,b) with results of c)

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The expert compares and contrasts the confidence intervals for samples. The expert estimates the mean invoice size of a sample.

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P9.43

The SEC requires companies to file annual reports concerning their financial status. It is impossible to audit every account receivable. Suppose we audit a random sample of 49 accounts receivable invoices and find a sample average of $128 and a sample standard deviation of $53.

a) Find a 99% confidence interval for the mean size of an accounts receivable invoice. Does your answer require that the sizes of the accounts receivable invoices follow a normal distribution?

Using the formula:
SE = SD/SQRT(N) = 53/ SQRT(49) = 7.57
Two-tailed t (0.01, 48) = 2.7
Then the Confidence intervals: lower and upper bounds of the range of values that contain the population parameter with a given probability.
The confidence interval = Mean +- t*SE = 128 +- 2.7*7.57 = (107.69, 148.31)
So your calculation is correct in this ...

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