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Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter10: Statistics

Section10.4: Distributions Of Data

Problem 19PFA

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A second-semester junior at a large high school wants to estimate the number of colleges a senior applies to on average before deciding where they will attend. The junior randomly selects 19 seniors and asks them how many colleges they applied to and records the number. Use the data below to construct a 99% confidence interval to estimate the true mean number of colleges seniors at this school apply to before deciding about which college to attend.

1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9

4. Conclude.

In repeated sampling, 99% of the time, the sample number of colleges seniors applied to will be 4.26.

In repeated sampling, 99% of the time, the true mean number of colleges seniors apply to will be captured in the constructed interval.

99% of seniors will apply to 4.26 colleges.

We are 99% confident that the constructed interval captures the true number of colleges seniors applied to.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...

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