3. A company that manufactures bicycles receives steel rods in large shipments from a supplier. From past experience, the bicycle company manager knows that o = 0.12 inches and that the lengths of the rods are approximately normally distributed. The manager takes a random sample of 10 rods from the latest shipment and finds that they have a mean length of 12.033 inches. Calculate and interpret a 90% confidence interval for the mean length of the latest shipment of rods.

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3. A company that manufactures bicycles receives steel rods in large shipments from a supplier.
From past experience, the bicycle company manager knows that o = 0.12 inches and that the
lengths of the rods are approximately normally distributed. The manager takes a random sample
of 10 rods from the latest shipment and finds that they have a mean length of 12.033 inches.
Calculate and interpret a 90% confidence interval for the mean length of the latest shipment of
rods.
Transcribed Image Text:3. A company that manufactures bicycles receives steel rods in large shipments from a supplier. From past experience, the bicycle company manager knows that o = 0.12 inches and that the lengths of the rods are approximately normally distributed. The manager takes a random sample of 10 rods from the latest shipment and finds that they have a mean length of 12.033 inches. Calculate and interpret a 90% confidence interval for the mean length of the latest shipment of rods.
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The sample size is 10, sample mean is 12.033, and population standard deviation is 0.12.

Computation of critical value:

1-α=0.90α=0.10α2=0.051-α2=0.95

The critical value of z-distribution can be obtained using the excel formula “=NORM.S.INV(0.95)”. The critical value is 1.6449.

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