The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 18 - Inference in Practice - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 419: 18.2a

Answer

$(1.7991,2.0409)$

Work Step by Step

$1-\alpha=0.95$, thus according to the table, $z_{\alpha/2}=z_{0.025}=1.96$. Thus the confidence interval is: $\overline{x}\pm z_{\alpha/2}\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt n}$, which here is: $1.92\pm 1.96\frac{1.183}{\sqrt{880}}$, thus the interval is: $(1.7991,2.0409)$
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