The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

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

Chapter 24 - Inference about Variables: Part IV Review - Test Yourself - Page 570: 24.39

Answer

See below.

Work Step by Step

The samples are very small, thus we cannot use the Central Limit Theorem. Thus the population distributions have to be approximately normal. It has to be generalized to the entire population, thus the samples have to be random samples from the population.
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