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: 6

Answer

z = 2.43

Work Step by Step

0.85 is the area under the curve between -z and z. The remaining area is = 1 - 0.85 = 0.15 The area at the end of each tail = 0.15/2 = 0.075 the z-score corresponding to the area at the end of each tail = 2.43
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