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The document outlines various statistical problems related to estimating population parameters using sample data, including calculating confidence intervals for means and proportions. It presents scenarios involving cylindrical rods, order processing times, consumer preferences, and student demographics, requiring the application of statistical methods. Each problem specifies sample sizes, means, standard deviations, and confidence levels to derive the necessary intervals.

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The document outlines various statistical problems related to estimating population parameters using sample data, including calculating confidence intervals for means and proportions. It presents scenarios involving cylindrical rods, order processing times, consumer preferences, and student demographics, requiring the application of statistical methods. Each problem specifies sample sizes, means, standard deviations, and confidence levels to derive the necessary intervals.

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AQ056-0-M Tutorial Sampling Distribution

1. The mean diameter of a sample of n = 12 cylindrical rods included in a shipment is 2.350


mm with a standard deviation of 0.050 mm. The distribution of the diameters of all the
rods included in the shipment is assumed to be approximately normal. Determine the 90
percent interval for estimating the mean diameter of all of the rods included in the
shipment.

2. A food manufacturer wishes to estimate the average time required to process orders
received from supermarkets. A random sample of 60 orders revealed a mean time of 2.4
days and a standard deviation of 1.2 days. Compute a 95% confidence interval for the
population mean process time.

3. A marketing research firm contacts a random sample of 100 men in a large community
and finds that a sample proportion of 0.40 prefer the razor blades manufactured by the
client firm to all other brands. Determine the 95 % confidence interval for the proportion
of all men in the community who prefer the client firm’s razor blades.

4. A college administrator collects data on a nationwide random sample of 230 students


enrolled in graduate programs in business administration, and finds that 54 of these
students have undergraduate degrees in business. Estimate the proportion of such students
nationwide who have undergraduate degrees in business administration, using a 90
percent confidence interval.

5. A university administrator wishes to estimate the proportion of students enrolled in


graduate programs in business administration who also have undergraduate degree in
business administration within  0.05 and with 90% confidence. What sample size
should he collect, as a minimum, if there is no basis for estimating the approximate value
of the proportion before the sample is taken?

6. An auditor takes a random sample of size n=36 from a population of 1000 accounts
receivable. The means value of the accounts receivable for the population is µ = $260.00
with the population standard deviation = $45.00.

7. Suppose that you wish to estimate the mean sales amount per retail outlet for a particular
consumer product during the past year. The number of retail outlet is large. Determine the
95% confidence interval given that the sales amounts are assumed to be normally
distributed.

8. Suppose that the standard deviation of the tube life of a particular brand of TV picture
tube is known to be 500, the population of tube life cannot be assumed to be normally
distributed. However, the sample mean of = 8900 is based on a sample of n = 35.
Construct the 95% confidence interval for estimating the population mean.

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