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EXST 2201
Quiz 2A
Name: Section: Score:

Directions: This quiz will be available on Moodle on after the lectures on chapter 05 have
been given. Mark your answers on this printout. When the quiz is available on
Moodle, record your answers in the Moodle quiz and submit them for grading.
You may take the quiz only once and you will have an hour and a half to
complete it, so be sure of your answers before you start the Moodle quiz.

1. Suppose a random sample of size 34 is obtained from a population with

population mean 30 and population standard deviation 4.

1A. What is the shape of the sampling distribution of the sample average?
Unknown shape
Bell shaped
Block shaped
Horn shaped

1B. What is the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample average?
0.88
8.5
30
120

1C. What is the standard error of the sampling distribution of the sample
average?
0.118
1.133
0.686
0.882

1D. What is the probability that the sample average is greater than 30.2?
0.2514
0.3859
0.7486
0.6147

1E. What is the probability the sample average is less than or equal to 30.6?
0.1909
0.6423
0.5768
0.8078
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2. A simple random sample of size n is drawn from a population with

x = 59.2 = 3.8
2A. What is the point estimate of the population mean?
3.8
55.4
59.2
15.6

2B. A significance level of 0.05 is the same as a confidence level of:

0.5%
5%
55%
95%

2C. What is the 90% CI estimate of the mean if n is 45?

(58.3, 60.1)
(59.1, 59.3)
(58.1, 60.3)
(58.3, 60.4)

2D. What is the 90% CI estimate of the mean if n is 55?

(58.4, 60.4)
(58.2, 60.2)
(58.4, 60.0)
(59.1, 59.3)

2E. What happens to the confidence interval when n increases?

It does not change.
It becomes wider.
It becomes narrower.
It becomes taller.

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3. A simple random sample of size n is drawn from a population with

x = 35.1 s = 8.7

3A. For a 95% confidence interval and a sample size 20, what is the critical value?
1.645
1.725
1.96
2.093

3B. To make a confidence interval when n is 18, the data must be:
distributed normally.
accurate.
theoretically determined.
not spread too wide.

3C. What is the 90% CI estimate of the mean if n is 40?

(32.4, 37.8)
(32.8, 37.4)
(32.4, 37.4)
(34.7, 35.4)

3D. What is the 98% CI estimate of the mean if n is 40?

(34.9, 35.3)
(32.3, 37.9)
(31.8, 38.4)
(31.5, 38.7)

3E. When the level of confidence increases, the confidence interval:

does not change.
becomes wider.
becomes narrower.
becomes taller.

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