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T he following sample of 16 measurements, saved in the LM5_34 file, was selected from a po...

T he following sample of 16 measurements, saved in the LM5_34 file, was selected from a population that is approximately normally distributed:

91

80

99

110

95

106

78

121

106

100

97

82

100

83

115

104

 

 

 

 

a. Construct an 80% confidence interval for the population mean.


b. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean, and compare the width of this interval with that of part a.


c. Carefully interpret each of the confidence intervals, and explain why the 80% confidence interval is narrower.

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