What are we able to conclude? Explain.
1. A marketing student is estimating the average amount of money that students at a large university spent on sporting events last year. He asks a random sample of 50 students at one of the university’s football games how much they spent on sporting events last year. Using this data he computes a 90% confidence interval, which turns out to be ($217, $677). What are we able to conclude? Explain.
2.Students in a statistics class are conducting a survey to estimate the mean number of hours each week that students at their college study. The students collect a random sample of 49 students. The mean of the sample is 12.2 hours. The standard deviation is 1.6 hours. What is the 95% confidence interval for the number of hours students in their college study? Explain and interpret your results in context of the problem.
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