Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321911216
Author: Ron Larson, Betsy Farber
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Chapter 6.1, Problem 33E
Finding the Margin of Error In Exercises 33 and 34, use the confidence interval to find the estimated margin of error. Then find the sample
33. Commute Times A government agency reports a confidence interval of (26.2, 30.1) when estimating the mean commute time (in minutes) for the population of workers in a city.
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Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)
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