Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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Chapter 6 - Confidence Intervals - Section 6.1 Confidence Intervals for the Mean - Exercises - Page 305: 13

Answer

Margin of Error $\approx$ 1.861

Work Step by Step

The z score that corresponds to the confidence level 0.95 is 1.96. Using z = 1.96, $\sigma$ = 5.2, n = 30 , margin of Error is given by: z x $\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt n}$ 1.96 x $\frac{5.2}{\sqrt 30}$ $\approx$ 1.861
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