Mathematical Statistics with Applications
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ISBN: 9780495110811
Author: Dennis Wackerly, William Mendenhall, Richard L. Scheaffer
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 1.1, Problem 1E
For each of the following situations, identify the population of interest, the inferential objective, and how you might go about collecting a sample.
- a A university researcher wants to estimate the proportion of U.S. citizens from “Generation X” who are interested in starting their own businesses.
- b For more than a century, normal body temperature for humans has been accepted to be 98.6° Fahrenheit. Is it really? Researchers want to estimate the average temperature of healthy adults in the United States.
- c A city engineer wants to estimate the average weekly water consumption for single-family dwelling units in the city.
- d The National Highway Safety Council wants to estimate the proportion of automobile tires with unsafe tread among all tires manufactured by a specific company during the current production year.
- e A political scientist wants to determine whether a majority of adult residents of a state favor a unicameral legislature.
- f A medical scientist wants to estimate the average length of time until the recurrence of a certain disease.
- g An electrical engineer wants to determine whether the average length of life of transistors of a certain type is greater than 500 hours.
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