1. A study of 40 people found that they could do on the average15 pull ups with a standard deviation of .6. Find the 99% confidence interval for the mean of the population.

2. A study of 50 pizza delivery workers found that they could make 6 deliveries per hour with a standard deviation of 1. Find the 95% confidence interval of the mean for all pizza delivery workers.

3. A random sample showed that the average number of tv's in each household is 2.3 with a standard deviation of .4. Find the 90% confidence level for the average number of tv's in every household in the population.

4. A researcher revealed that the average number of people who have a driver's license out of a sample of 100 people is 1.5 with a standard deviation of .3. Find the 80% confidence interval for the mean of the population.

1 answer

1. Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportion/probability (.005) and its Z score.

99% = mean ± Z SEm

SEm = SD/√n

2. Same but use .025.

3. Same but use .05. What is size of sample?

4. Same but use .10.