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Confidence Interval Margin of Error
Authored by Anthony Clark
Mathematics
11th Grade

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1.
FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A company is reaching out to customers who bought a pedometer watch. It wants to construct a 90% confidence interval for the mean rating of its pedometer watch. If the company wants S=1.2 and MoE of 0.2. How many people should they contact to obtain this margin of error? (Round to a whole number).
(a)
2.
FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A 90% confidence interval for the average salary of all CEOs in the electronics industry was constructed using the results of a random survey of n CEOs. It was found that the standard deviation was $1,000 and the margin of error was $300. How many CEOs was included in the survey? (Round to the nearest whole number)
(a)
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In a crash test of 15 troopers, collision repair costs are found to have a distribution that is approximately normal, with a mean of $1800 and a sample standard deviation of $950. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the repair cost.
(1069.77, 2530.23)
(1077.13, 2522.87)
(1167.15, 2432.85)
None of these.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
If the margin of error in a confidence interval is 4, what is the range of the confidence interval around a sample mean of 50?
46 to 54
48 to 52
45 to 55
49 to 51
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A confidence interval for the mean score of a test is (75, 85). What is the margin of error?
5
10
15
20
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
If the sample mean is 100 and the margin of error is 5, what is the upper bound of the 95% confidence interval?
95
105
100
110
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What effect does doubling the sample size have on the margin of error in a confidence interval, assuming the confidence level remains constant?
The margin of error is cut in half.
The margin of error remains the same.
The margin of error doubles.
The margin of error is reduced, but not cut in half.
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