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If appropriate, construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean price for all phones of this type being sold on the Internet in 2013. Round your intermediate step to three decimal places. Round your answer to one decimal place.
ANSWER PART 3

Transcribed Image Text:How smart is your phone? A random sample of 10 Samsung Galaxy
smartphones being sold over the Internet in 2013 had the following prices, in
dollars:
199 169 385 329 269 149
135 249 349 299
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Assume the population standard deviation is a-82.
Perform the following.
Part 1 of 3
(a) Explain why it is necessary to check whether the population is
approximately normal before constructing a confidence interval.
It is necessary to check whether the population is approximately normal
because the sample size is less than or equal to 30
Part 2 of 3
(b) Following is a dotplot of these data. Is it reasonable to assume that
the population is approximately normal?
100 150
It is
normal.
Part: 2/3
Part 3 of 3
200 250 300 350
reasonable to assume that the population is approximately
(c) If appropriate, construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean price
for all phones of this type being sold on the Internet in 2013. Round your
intermediate step to three decimal places. Round your answer to one
decimal place.
A 95% confidence interval for the mean price for all
phones of this type being sold on the Internet in 2013
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