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Lakefront resort is planning for its summer busy season. It wishes to estimate with 95% confidence the average number of nights each guest will stay in a consecutive visit. Using a sample of guests who stayed last year, the average number of nights per guest is calculated at 5 nights. The standard deviation of the sample is 1.5 nights. The size of the sample used is 120 guests and the resort desires a precision of plus or minus .5 nights. What is the standard error of the mean in the lakefront resort example? Within what range below can the resort expect with 95% confidence for the true population mean to fall?

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Answer from: erik1franks

In order to calculate the critical value $t_{\alpha/2}$ we need to find first the degrees of freedom, given by:

df=n-1=120-1=119

Since the Confidence is 0.95 or 95%, the value of $\alpha=0.05$ and $\alpha/2 =0.025$ , and we can use excel, a calculator or a table to find the critical value. The excel command would be: "=-T.INV(0.025,119)".And we see that $t_{\alpha/2}=1.98$

The standard error is given by:

$SE= t_{\alpha/2} \frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}$

And replacing we got:

$SE= 1.98 \frac{1.5}{\sqrt{120}}=0.271$

$5-1.98\frac{1.5}{\sqrt{120}}=4.729$

$5+1.98\frac{1.5}{\sqrt{120}}=5.271$

So on this case the 95% confidence interval would be given by (4.729;5.271)

Step-by-step explanation:

Previous concepts

A confidence interval is "a range of values that’s likely to include a population value with a certain degree of confidence. It is often expressed a % whereby a population means lies between an upper and lower interval".

The margin of error is the range of values below and above the sample statistic in a confidence interval.

Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".

$\bar X=5$ represent the sample mean

$\mu$ population mean (variable of interest)

s=1.5 represent the sample standard deviation

n=120 represent the sample size

Confidence interval

The confidence interval for the mean is given by the following formula:

$\bar X \pm t_{\alpha/2}\frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}$ (1)

In order to calculate the critical value $t_{\alpha/2}$ we need to find first the degrees of freedom, given by:

df=n-1=120-1=119

The standard error is given by:

$SE= t_{\alpha/2} \frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}$

And replacing we got:

$SE= 1.98 \frac{1.5}{\sqrt{120}}=0.271$

Now we have everything in order to replace into formula (1):

$5-1.98\frac{1.5}{\sqrt{120}}=4.729$

$5+1.98\frac{1.5}{\sqrt{120}}=5.271$

So on this case the 95% confidence interval would be given by (4.729;5.271)

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