What price do farmers get for their watermelon crops? In the third week of July, a random sample of 40 farming regions gave a sample mean of  = $6.88 per 100 pounds of watermelon. Assume that σ is known to be $1.92 per 100 pounds. (a)  Find a 90% confidence interval for the population mean price (per 100 pounds) that farmers in this region get for their watermelon crop (in dollars). What is the margin of error (in dollars)? (For each answer, enter a number. Round your answers to two decimal places.) lower limit     $   upper limit     $   margin of error     $   (b)  Find the sample size necessary for a 90% confidence level with maximal error of estimate E = 0.25 for the mean price per 100 pounds of watermelon. (Enter a number. Round up to the nearest whole number.)  farming regions (c)  A farm brings 15 tons of watermelon to market. Find a 90% confidence interval for the population mean cash value of this crop (in dollars). What is the margin of error (in dollars)? Hint: 1 ton is 2000 pounds. (For each answer, enter a number. Round your answers to two decimal places.) lower limit     $  upper limit     $  margin of error     $

A random sample of 10 children found that their average growth for the first year was 9.8 inches, with a standard deviation of 0.96 inches. Find the 85% confidence interval of the mean growth of all American children in the first year of life.What is the name of the confidence interval?

The president of a large university wishes to compare the standard deviation of the ages of students presently enrolled to previous years. The distribution of ages has been approximately normal. Find the 90% confidence interval for the population standard deviation of the student ages of the University. A random sample of 20 university students has a standard deviation of 6.1 years in a mean of 23.8 years what is the confidence interval of the population standard deviation?

In a school district, all sixth grade students take the same standardized test. The superintendant of the school district takes a random sample of 3030 scores from all of the students who took the test. She sees that the mean score is 169169 with a standard deviation of 7.06747.0674. The superintendant wants to know if the standard deviation has changed this year. Previously, the population standard deviation was 1313. Is there evidence that the standard deviation of test scores has decreased at the α=0.005α=0.005 level? Assume the population is normally distributed. Step 1 of 5:  State the null and alternative hypotheses. Round to four decimal places when necessary. Step 2 of 5:  Determine the critical value(s) of the test statistic. If the test is two-tailed, separate the values with a comma. Round your answer to three decimal places.     Step 3 of 5:  Determine the value of the test statistic. Round your answer to three decimal places. Step 4 of 5:  Make the…

Scores on a standarized exam are known to follow a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 5. A researcher finds a random sample of 25 exam scores has a mean score of 72. Use this to find a 88% confidence interval for the mean exam score of all students taking the exam.

An agricultural researcher plants 14 plots with a new variety of corn. The average yield for these plots is X = 155 bushels per acre. Assume that the yield per acre for new variety of corn follows a normal distribution with unknown mean and a calculated sample standard deviation s = 10 bushels. A 90% confidence interval for the unknown mean is

During the busy season, it is important for the shipping manager at ShipMundo to be able to estimate the time it takes the loading crew to load a truck. The shipping manager has found that she can model the load times using a normal distribution with a mean of 152 minutes and a standard deviation of 15 minutes. Use this table or the ALEKS calculator to find the percentage of load times between 116 minutes and 149 minutes according to the model. For your intermediate computations, use four or more decimal places. Give your final answer to two decimal places (for example 98.23%).

A ecologist wishes to estimate the mean lifespan for a specific species of bird. Assume that bird lifespan is normally distributed and that each bird's lifespan is independent of all others. The researcher analyzes a random sample of n=7 deceased birds to find out how long they lived for. It is found that the mean lifespan in the sample is y= 5 4 years with standard deviation s=13 years. Choose the correct formula for a 95% confidence interval for the true mean lifespan. X± to.975,n O xt to.975,n-1 n-1 O none of these X+ Z0.975 O x+ to.975,n-1' O xt to.975,n-15