Option 1: Think about a population mean that you may be interested in and propose a
confidence interval problem for this parameter. Your data values should be
approximately normal.
For example, you may want to estimate the population mean number of times that
adults go out for dinner each week. Your data could be that you spoke with seven
people you know and found that they went out 2, 0, 1, 5, 0, 2, and 3 times last
week. You then would choose to calculate a 95% (or another level) confidence
interval for the population mean.
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Assume a random sample was chosen which is required to determine a confidence
interval.
Option 2