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Confidence Interval Interpretations

Authored by Wendy Peske

Mathematics

12th Grade

CCSS covered

Confidence Interval Interpretations
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Given that 95% confidence interval for the mean number of hours that adults sleep at night is found to be (6.55,8.25) from a sleep lab experiment. Is the following statement correct?

95% of the time, the number of hours people sleep is between 6.55 and 8.25 hours.

Correct

Incorrect

Answer explanation

Incorrect because 95% confidence intervals do not contain 95% of the measurements.

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Given that 95% confidence interval for the mean number of hours that adults sleep at night is found to be (6.55,8.25) from a sleep lab experiment. Is the following statement correct?

95% of the confidence intervals constructed by this method will contain the mean number of hours that adults sleep at night.

Correct

Incorrect

Answer explanation

Incorrect because this is an interpretation of the confidence level, not the confidence interval.

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Given that 95% confidence interval for the mean number of hours that adults sleep at night is found to be (6.55,8.25) from a sleep lab experiment. Is the following statement correct?

We are 95% confident that the mean number of hours that adults sleep at night is between 6.55 hour and 8.25 hours.

Correct

Incorrect

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Correct

Incorrect

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Given that 95% confidence interval for the mean number of hours that adults sleep at night is found to be (6.55,8.25) from a sleep lab experiment. Is the following statement correct?

95% of the confidence intervals we construct will give us the interval (6.55, 8.25)

Correct

Incorrect

Answer explanation

Incorrect because confidence intervals will vary due to natural variation in the samples collected.

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Given that 95% confidence interval for the mean number of hours that adults sleep at night is found to be (6.55,8.25) from a sleep lab experiment. Is the following statement correct?

There is a 95% probability that the mean number of hours that adults sleep is between 6.55 and 8.25 hours.

Correct

Incorrect

Answer explanation

Incorrect because the interval has already been collected. We cannot talk about probability after the event, the interval either contains the true mean or not.

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Given that 95% confidence interval for the mean number of hours that adults sleep at night is found to be (6.55,8.25) from a sleep lab experiment. Is the following statement correct?

If 100 random samples of the given size are picked and a 95% confidence interval is calculated from each sample, then the mean number of hours that adults sleep will be in approximately 95 of the resulting intervals.

Correct

Incorrect

Answer explanation

Incorrect because this is an interpretation of the confidence level, not the confidence interval.

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

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