out during a 1-year period. The averageFandom sample$1550. Assume o = $258.Find a 0.90 confidence interval for the mean claim payment.4. Three-circle, red-on-white is one distinctive pattern painted on ceramievessels of the Anasazi period found at an archaeological site. AE Oexcavation, a sample of 161 potsherds indicated that 70 were of thethree-circle, red-on-white pattern.a) (a) Find a point estimate ô for the proportion of all ceramicsla potsherds at this site that are of the three-circle, red-on-whitepattern. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)b) (b) Compute a 95% confidence interval for the populationproportion p of all ceramic potsherds with this distinctive patternfound at the site.5. The average annual miles driven per vehicle in the United States is11.thousand miles, with o × 600 miles. Suppose that a random sampleof 26 vehicles owned by residents of Chicago showed that the averagemileage driven last year was 10.8 thousand miles. Does this indicate thát6. the average miles driven per vehicle in Chicago is different from(higher or lower than) the national average? Use a 0.05 level ofsignificance.What are we testing in this problem?i) single proportion ii) single mean(a)What is the level of significance?State the null and alternate hypotheses.s is

4. The provided information is n=161 x=70 α=0.05 The critical value for α=0.05 is zc=1.96 (from z…

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