The effectiveness of a blood-pressure drug is being investigated. An experimenter finds that, on average, the reduction in systolic blood pressure is 38.8 for a sample of size 911 and standard deviation 11.7. Estimate how much the drug will lower a typical patient's systolic blood pressure (using a 80% confidence level). Enter your answer as a tri-linear inequality accurate to one decimal place (because the sample statistics are reported accurate to one decimal place).  < μμ <  Answer should be obtained without any preliminary rounding. Submit QuestionQuestion 3

Colleges announce an "average" SAT score for their entering freshmen. Usually the college would like this "average" to be as high as possible. A NewYork Times article noted, "Private colleges that buy lots of top students with merit scholarships prefer the mean, while open-enrollment public instituions like medians." Use what you know about the behavior of means and medians to explain these differences.

in a test of a lifelong brand of tires , a survey revealed that the mean life was 35,000 mikes and the standard deviation was 7083 mikes.  if the shape of the population distribution is known to be normal, approximately what percentage of the tires lasts less than 20834 miles ?

The blue catfish (Ictalurus Furcatus) is the largest species of North Amercian catfish. The current world record stands at 143 pounds, which was caught in the John H. Kerr Reservoir (Bugg's Island Lake) located in Virginia. According to Amercian Expedition, the average weight of a blue catfish is between 20 to 40 pounds. Given that the largest blue catfish ever caught was at the John H. Kerr Reservoir, you believe that the mean weight of the fish in this reservoir is greater than 40 pounds. If you are going to test this claim, what would be your null and alternative hypotheses? Ho: HA: p> v Submit Question

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You may need to use the appropriate appendix table or technology to answer this question. In a study entitled How Undergraduate Students Use Credit Cards, it was reported that undergraduate students have a mean credit card balance of $3,173. This figure was an all-time high and had increased 44% over the previous five years. Assume that a current study is being conducted to determine if it can be concluded that the mean credit card balance for undergraduate students has continued to increase compared to the original report. Based on previous studies, use a population standard deviation  ? = $1,000. (a) State the null and alternative hypotheses. H0: ? < 3,173 Ha: ? ≥ 3,173 H0: ? = 3,173 Ha: ? ≠ 3,173      H0: ? > 3,173 Ha: ? ≤ 3,173 H0: ? ≥ 3,173 Ha: ? < 3,173 H0: ? ≤ 3,173 Ha: ? > 3,173 (b) What is the test statistic for a sample of 170 undergraduate students with a sample mean credit card balance of $3,305? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)   What is…

A psychologist is studying the self image of smokers, as measured by the self-image (SI) score from a personality inventory. She would like to examine the mean SI score,  μ , for the population of all smokers. Previously published studies have indicated that the mean SI score for the population of all smokers is  80  and that the standard deviation is  12 , but the psychologist believes that the value for the mean has decreased. She plans to perform a statistical test. She takes a random sample of SI scores for smokers and computes the sample mean to be  74 . Based on this information, answer the questions below. What are the null hypothesis ( H0 ) and the alternative hypothesis ( H1 ) that should be used for the test? H0 :  μ  is ?less thanless than or equal togreater thangreater than or equal tonot equal toequal to ?748012 H1 :  μ  is ?less thanless than or equal togreater thangreater than or equal tonot equal toequal to ?748012In the…

A researcher hypothesizes that different colors of cars result in different average speeds.  To test this claim, she took a random sample of 20 people who own 4 different colors of colors of cars  (n = 20, N = 80, G = 4), and she then tracks their average speed on the highway for a week of driving.  The following ANOVA table has some of her results.  Please help her answer her research questions by completing the following ANOVA table below and answering the follow-up questions.  Be sure to label your answers with the appropriate letter and show all your work! Source  Sums of Squares     df   Mean Square        F     Effect (between)             Error (within) 100.90     ------ Total 170.10     ------- ------ a) What is the Sums of Squares (SS) between (effect)? b) What are the Mean Square (MS) between (effect) and the MS within (error)? c) What are the degrees of freedom (df) between, the df within, and the df total? d) What is the overall F-statistic? e) Based on the…