Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 9 - Section 9.2 - Assess Your Understanding - Applying the Concepts - Page 452: 50c

Answer

Lower Bound = 40.227 Upper Bound = 55.773 We can see that the outlier has caused the confidence interval to get wider and the lower bound to shift leftward.

Work Step by Step

Here we have n = 12, df = n-1 = 11, x̅ = 48 and s = 12.233 Confidence = 95% α = 1 - 0.95 = 0.05, α/2 = 0.025, $t_{α/2} = 2.201$ $E = 2.201 \times \frac{12.233}{\sqrt 12} = 7.773 $ Lower Bound = x̅ - E = 48 - 7.773 = 40.227 Upper Bound = x̅ + E = 48 + 7.773 = 55.773
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