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: 41

Answer

The CI in exercise 37 is wider

Work Step by Step

$2650 \pm ( 1.96\times\frac{375}{\sqrt 50}$) $2650 \pm 103.945$ CI: $2546.055 < \mu < 2753.945 \approx 2546.06 < \mu < 2753.95$ The CI in exercise 37 is wider because there is more variability in the population.
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