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Consider the following random sample from a normal population: 14, 10, 13, 16, 12, 18, 15, and 11. What is the 95% confidence interval for the population variance?

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Answer from: cmfield9014

$13.625-2.365\frac{2.669}{\sqrt{8}}=11.393$

$13.625+2.365\frac{2.669}{\sqrt{8}}=15.857$

So on this case the 95% confidence interval would be given by (11.393;15.857)

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".

Data: 14, 10, 13, 16, 12, 18, 15, 11

We can calculate the sample mean and deviation with the following formulas:

$\bar X = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^n X_i}{n}$

$s = \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{i=1}^n (X_i -\bar X)^2}{n-1}}$

$\bar X=13.625$ represent the sample mean

$\mu$ population mean (variable of interest)

s=2.669 represent the sample standard deviation

n=8 represent the sample size

Calculate the 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=8-1=7

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(0.025,7)".And we see that $t_{\alpha/2}=2.365$

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

$13.625-2.365\frac{2.669}{\sqrt{8}}=11.393$

$13.625+2.365\frac{2.669}{\sqrt{8}}=15.857$

So on this case the 95% confidence interval would be given by (11.393;15.857)

Answer from: Quest

Intersecting secant-tangent theorem states that if a tangent segment and a secant segment are drawn to a circle from an exterior point, then the square of the measure of the tangent segment is equal to the product of the measures of the secant segment and its external secant segment.so to break it down: 1. pq acts as the tangent and ps as the secant with an intersection at p.sr = 21rp = 3x + 3pq = 4x + 4following to equation: tangent squared = the two segments multiplied by each otherso (4x + 4) ^ 2 = (3x + 3) • (21) simplifies to 16x^2 - 31x - 47 = 0 or (16x - 47)(x + 1) x = -1 or x = 47/162. pq acts as the tangent and ps as the secant with an intersection at p (again! )sr = 16rp = xpq = 15(15) ^ 2 = 16 • x225 = 16xx = 225/163. the interesting chords are proportional to each other so a ratio is possible to set up: ap dp 10 3 + x = = —— = pc pb 8 xcross multiple to get 10x = (3 + x)(8)x = 12

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