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Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1111827021
book Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase cover

Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1111827021
Exercise 33
In Problems 13-19, assume that the population of x values has an approximately normal distribution.
Franchise: Candy Store Do you want to own your own candy store With some interest in running your own business and a decent credit rating, you can probably get a bank loan on startup costs for franchises such as Candy Express, The Fudge Company, Karmel Corn, and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Startup costs (in thousands of dollars) for a random sample of candy stores are given below (Source: Entrepreneur Magazine , Vol. 23, No. 10).
95 173 129 95 75 94 116 100 85
(a) Use a calculator with mean and sample stand deviation keys to verify that
In Problems 13-19, assume that the population of x values has an approximately normal distribution. Franchise: Candy Store Do you want to own your own candy store With some interest in running your own business and a decent credit rating, you can probably get a bank loan on startup costs for franchises such as Candy Express, The Fudge Company, Karmel Corn, and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Startup costs (in thousands of dollars) for a random sample of candy stores are given below (Source: Entrepreneur Magazine , Vol. 23, No. 10). 95 173 129 95 75 94 116 100 85 (a) Use a calculator with mean and sample stand deviation keys to verify that     106.9 thousand dollars and s 29.4 thousand dollars. (b) Find a 90% confidence interval for the population average startup costs for candy store franchises. (c) Interpretation What does the confidence interval mean in the context of this problem 106.9 thousand dollars and s 29.4 thousand dollars.
(b) Find a 90% confidence interval for the population average startup costs for candy store franchises.
(c) Interpretation What does the confidence interval mean in the context of this problem
Explanation
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For the given data the sample mean is
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