In 1998, as an advertising campaign, the Nabisco Company announced a "1000 Chips Challenge," claiming that every 18-ounce bag of their Chips Ahoy cookies contained at least 1000 chocolate chips. Dedicated statistics students at the Air Force Academy (no kidding) purchased some randomly selected bags of cookies and counted the chocolate chips. Some of their data are given below. 1219 1214 1087 1200 1419 1121 1325 1345 1244 1258 1356 1132 1191 1270 1295 1135 Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of chips in a bag of Chips Ahoy Cookies. Based on this confidence interval, is the Nabisco Company justified in making this claim? O yes O no

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In 1998, as an advertising campaign, the Nabisco Company announced a "1000 Chips Challenge,"
claiming that every 18-ounce bag of their Chips Ahoy cookies contained at least 1000 chocolate
chips. Dedicated statistics students at the Air Force Academy (no kidding) purchased some randomly
selected bags of cookies and counted the chocolate chips. Some of their data are given below.
1219 1214 1087 1200 1419 1121 1325 1345 1244 1258 1356 1132 1191 1270 1295 1135
Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of chips in a bag of Chips Ahoy Cookies.
Based on this confidence interval, is the Nabisco Company justified in making this claim?
O yes
O no
Transcribed Image Text:In 1998, as an advertising campaign, the Nabisco Company announced a "1000 Chips Challenge," claiming that every 18-ounce bag of their Chips Ahoy cookies contained at least 1000 chocolate chips. Dedicated statistics students at the Air Force Academy (no kidding) purchased some randomly selected bags of cookies and counted the chocolate chips. Some of their data are given below. 1219 1214 1087 1200 1419 1121 1325 1345 1244 1258 1356 1132 1191 1270 1295 1135 Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of chips in a bag of Chips Ahoy Cookies. Based on this confidence interval, is the Nabisco Company justified in making this claim? O yes O no
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