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93. How can the result in Question 92 be used by the automobile dealer to study
satisfaction with cars purchased at the dealership?
ANSWER:
The dealer can infer that the proportion of all customers who still own the cars
they purchased at the dealership 6 years earlier is somewhere between 03712 and
0.5088 with a 95% level of confidence.
TRUE / FALSE QUESTIONS
94. The degrees of freedom for the t and chi-square distributions is a numerical
parameter of the distribution that defines the precise shape of the distribution.
ANSWER: T
95. When all possible samples of size n are drawn from any population, then the
sampling distribution of the sample mean is approximately normal provided
that n is reasonably large.
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ANSWER: T
96. The mean of the sampling distribution of the sample proportion , when the
sample size n = 100 and the population proportion p = 0.58, is 58.0.
ANSWER: F
97. The standard error of the sampling distribution of the sample proportion , when
the sample size n = 50 and the population proportion p = 0.25, is 0.00375.
ANSWER: F
98. In developing a confidence interval for the population standard deviation , we
make use of the fact that the sampling distribution of the sample standard
deviation S is not the normal distribution or the t distribution, but rather a right-
skewed distribution called the chi-square distribution, which (for this procedure)
has n 1 degrees of freedom.
ANSWER: T
99. As a general rule, the normal distribution is used to approximate the sampling
distribution of the sample proportion only if the sample size n is greater than
30.
ANSWER: F
100. In general, the paired-sample procedure is appropriate when the samples are
naturally paired in some way and there is a reasonably large positive correlation
between the pairs. In this case, the paired-sample procedure makes more efficient
use of the data and generally results in narrower confidence intervals.
ANSWER: T
101. If the standard error of the sampling distribution of the sample proportion is
0.0324 for samples of size 200, then the population proportion must be 0.30.
ANSWER: F
102. If a random sample of size 250 is taken from a population, where it is known that
the population proportion p = 0.4, then the mean of the sampling distribution of
the sample proportion is 0.60.
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ANSWER: F
103. If two random samples of size 40 each are selected independently from two
populations whose variances are 35 and 45, then the standard error of the
sampling distribution of the sample mean difference, , equals 1.4142.
ANSWER: T
104. If two random samples of sizes 30 and 35 are selected independently from two
populations whose means are 85 and 90, then the mean of the sampling
distribution of the sample mean difference, , equals 5.
ANSWER: F
105. A confidence interval is an interval estimate for which there is a specified degree
of certainty that the actual value of the population parameter will fall within the
interval.
ANSWER: T
106. The 95% confidence interval for the population mean , given that the sample
size n = 49 and the population standard deviation = 7, is .
ANSWER: T
107. In order to construct a confidence interval estimate of the population mean , the
value of must be given.
ANSWER: F
108. The interval estimate 18.5 2.5 was developed for a population mean when the
sample standard deviation S was 7.5. Had S equaled 15, the interval estimate
would be 37 5.0.
ANSWER: F
109. We can form a confidence interval for the population total T by finding a
confidence interval for the population mean in the usual way, and then
multiplying each end point of the confidence interval by the population size N.
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ANSWER: T
110. A 90% confidence interval estimate for a population mean is determined to be
72.8 to 79.6. If the confidence level is reduced to 80%, the confidence interval for
becomes narrower.
ANSWER: T
111. In general, increasing the confidence level will narrow the confidence interval,
and decreasing the confidence level widens the interval.
ANSWER: F
112. The upper limit of the 90% confidence interval for the population proportion p,
given that n = 100; and = 0.20 is 0.2658.
ANSWER: T
113. The lower limit of the 95% confidence interval for the population proportion p,
given that n = 300; and = 0.10 is 0.1339.
ANSWER: F
114. The t-distribution and the standard normal distribution are practically
indistinguishable as the degrees of freedom increase.
ANSWER: T
115. In determining the sample size n for estimating the population proportion p, a
conservative value of n can be obtained by using 0.50 as an estimate of p.
ANSWER: T
116. In developing confidence interval for the difference between two population
means using two independent samples, we use the pooled estimate in
estimating the standard error of the sampling distribution of the sample mean
difference if the populations are normal with equal variances.
ANSWER: T
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