A local church parish wants to raise money to add to their campus. In a sample from a previous fund raising campaign, the parish found that of the 120 people in the sample they contacted, that 80 actually contributed money. Of those that contributed money, the average contribution was $850 with a standard deviation of $350. In the recent fundraising campaign, a sample of 90 people revealed that 52 have contributed money with an average contribution of

Lawmakers are considering a new tax to discourage cigarette consumption and promote healthy lifestyle choices. Taxes on cigarettes prior to this new legislation tended to average $2.791 with a standard deviation of $0.331. To calculate the new cigarette tax, every observation in the dataset is multiplied by 1.335. What will the new mean be?

Amanda recently switched her primary doctor to one specializing in caring for elderly patients. On her new doctor's website, it says that the mean systolic blood pressure among elderly females is 115 millimeters of mercury (mmHg). Amanda believes the value is actually higher. She bases her belief on a recently reported study of 17 randomly selected, elderly females. The sample mean systolic blood pressure was 123 mmHg, and the sample standard deviation was 23 mmHg. Assume that the systolic blood pressures of elderly females are approximately normally distributed. Based on the study, at the 0.05 level of significance, can it be concluded that μ, the population mean systolic blood pressure among elderly females, is greater than 115 mmHg? Perform a one-tailed test. Then complete the parts below. Carry your intermediate computations to three or more decimal places.  A. Find the value of the test statistic and round to 3 or more decimal places. (I have posted a picture of an example problem…

The heights of adult men in America are normally distributed, with a mean of 69.6 inches and a standard deviation of 2.66 inches. The heights of adult women in America are also normally distributed, but with a mean of 64.2 inches and a standard deviation of 2.56 inches. A. If a man is 6 feet 3 inches tall, what is his z-score (to two decimal places)? B. If a woman is 5 feet 11 inches tall, what is her z-score (to two decimal places)? C. Who is relatively taller?

A report about how American college students manage their finances includes data from a survey of college students. Each person in a representative sample of 793 college students was asked if they had one or more credit cards and if so, whether they paid their balance in full each month. There were 500 who paid in full each month. For this sample of 500 students, the sample mean credit card balance was reported to be $825. The sample standard deviation of the credit card balances for these 500 students was not reported, but for purposes of this exercise, suppose that it was $205. Is there convincing evidence that college students who pay their credit card balance in full each month have a mean balance that is lower than $907, the value reported for all college students with credit cards? Carry out a hypothesis test using a significance level of 0.01.   State the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses. H0: ? = 907 Ha: ? < 907 H0: ? = 907 Ha: ? > 907      H0: ? < 907…

Answer quickly please. Need answer ASAP. A study was made to determine if the subject matter in a physics course is better understood when a lab constitutes part of the course. Students were randomly selected to participate in either a 3-semester-hour course without labs or a 4-semester-hour course with labs. In the section with labs, 17 students made an average grade of 85 with a standard deviation of 4.7, and in the section without labs, 17 students made an average grade of 79 with a standard deviation of 6.1. Construct 90% confidence interval for the difference of the mean grades between the two physics courses. Based on your interval, would you say that the laboratory course increases the average grade? Assume the populations to be approximately normally distributed.