Statistics for Business and Economics, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Statistics with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (10th Edition)
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Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry T Sincich
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Chapter 6.3, Problem 6.34ACI
(a)
To determine
To construct: The 90% confidence interval for the true mean absolute deviation percentage for the new formula.
(b)
To determine
To check: Whether the new formula better than the ASHRAE formula or not.
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Statistics for Business and Economics, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Statistics with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (10th Edition)
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