A corporation that maintains a large fleet of company cars for the use of its sales staff is interested in the mean distance driven monthly per sales person. The following list gives the monthly distances in miles driven by a random sample of 15 sales persons. 2445, 1895, 2304, 2300, 2684, 2691, 1887, 2461, 2348, 2083, 2299, 2052, 2512, 1962, 2383 Send data to calculator Send data to Excel Based on this sample, find a 99% confidence interval for the mean number of miles driven monthly by members of the sales staff, assuming that monthly driving distances are normally distributed. Then find the lower limit and upper limit of the 99% confidence interval. Carry your intermediate computations to at least three decimal places. Round your answers to one decimal place. (If necessary, consult a list of formulas.) Lower limit: O ? Upper limit:I
Continuous Probability Distributions
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Normal Distribution
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![A corporation that maintains a large fleet of company cars for the use of
its sales staff is interested in the mean distance driven monthly per
sales person. The following list gives the monthly distances in miles
driven by a random sample of 15 sales persons.
2445, 1895, 2304, 2300, 2684, 2691, 1887, 2461, 2348, 2083, 2299, 2052, 2512, 1962, 2383
Send data to calculator
Send data to Excel
Based on this sample, find a 99% confidence interval for the mean
number of miles driven monthly by members of the sales staff,
assuming that monthly driving distances are normally distributed. Then
find the lower limit and upper limit of the 99% confidence interval.
Carry your intermediate computations to at least three decimal places.
Round your answers to one decimal place. (If necessary, consult a list of
formulas.)
Lower limit: ]
Upper limit: I](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fbbb877a2-9d2f-46b5-991f-5f4065d0e2dd%2F50855ffa-cd17-4883-9659-fac4f6c05c58%2Frbplm0w_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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