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 306: 27

Answer

margin of error = 0.17 and sample mean = 1.88

Work Step by Step

1 ) Find the width of the interval 2.05 - 1.71 = 0.34 2) Find the margin of error by dividing the interval width by two: 0.34/2 = 0.17 3) Subtract the margin of error from upper bound to find mean 2.05 - 0.17 = 1.88 Therefore, margin of error = 0.17 and sample mean = 1.88
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