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

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A sample of 30 women finds the mean height to be 62.3 in and the standard deviation to be 1.5 in. Find the margin of error of women's heights with a 95% CL.
699
0.56
0.537
19.325
2.
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)
3.
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)
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A sample size of n = 64 is drawn from a population whose standard deviation is σ = 5.6.
Find the margin of error for a 99% confidence interval for µ.
1.799
1.798
1.803
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A population has a standard deviation of σ = 17.3. How large of a sample must be drawn so that a 95% confidence interval for µ will have a Margin of Error equal to 1.4?
586.6
587
586
585
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A large sample has mean of 7.1 and Standard Error of 2.3.
Construct a 90% Confidence Interval for the population mean µ (to two decimal places).
(3.32, 10.88)
(3.8, 7.1)
(3.3, 10.9)
(3.3165, 10.8835)
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The lifetime of a certain type of battery is known to be normally distributed with a standard deviation of 20 hours. A sample of 50 batteries had a mean lifetime of 120.1 hours. It is desired to construct a 99% confidence interval for the mean lifetime of this type of battery.
What is the Confidence Interval to one decimal place?
(114.5, 125.6)
(112.8, 127.4)
(112.82, 127.38)
(114.56, 125.64)
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