Announcements for 84 upcoming engineering conferences were randomly picked from a stack of IEEE Spectrum magazines. The mean length of the conferences was 3.94 days, with a standard deviation of 1.28 days. Assume the underlying population is normal. In words, define the random variables X and ?⎯⎯⎯X¯. Which distribution should you use for this problem? Explain your choice. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean length of engineering conferences. State the confidence interval. Sketch the graph. Calculate the error bound.

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Announcements for 84 upcoming engineering conferences were randomly picked from a stack of IEEE Spectrum magazines. The mean length of the conferences was 3.94 days, with a standard deviation of 1.28 days. Assume the underlying population is normal.

  1. In words, define the random variables X and ?⎯⎯⎯X¯.
  2. Which distribution should you use for this problem? Explain your choice.
  3. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean length of engineering conferences.
    1. State the confidence interval.
    2. Sketch the graph.
    3. Calculate the error bound.
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