Title: Interval Estimation: σ known.

1. The Greensboro Coliseum is considering expanding its seating capacity and needs to knows
both the average number of people who attend events there and the variability in this number.
The following are the attendances (in thousands) at nine randomly selected sporting events.
Find point estimates of the mean and the variance of the population from which the sample
was drawn.
8.8 14.0 21.3 7.9 12.5 20.6 16.3 14.1 13.0
Sample Mean 14.28
Sample size 9
Sample Std Dev 4.60

2. From a population known to have a standard deviation of 1.4, a sample of 60 individuals is

taken. The mean for this sample is found to be 6.2.
(a) Find the standard error of the mean.
(b) Establish an interval estimate around the sample mean, using one standard error of
the mean.
  SE 0.18073922
Lower Upper
Confidence Interval Limit Limit
0.18 6.02 6.38

3. The University of North Carolina is conducting a study on the average weight of the many
bricks that comprise the University’s walkways. Workers are sent to dig up and weigh a
sample of 421 bricks and the average brick weight of this sample was 14.2 lb. It is a well
known fact that the standard deviation of brick weight is 0.8 lb.
(a) Find the standard error of the mean.
(b) What is the interval around the sample mean that will include the population mean
95.5 percent of the time?
Sample Mean 14.20
Sample size 421
Std Dev 0.8
Choose Level of
confidence 0.955
  SE 0.03899
Lower Upper
Confidence Interval Limit Limit
0.08 14.12 14.28

4. For a population with a known variance of 185, a sample of 64 individuals leads to 217 as an
estimate of the mean.
(a) Find the standard error of the mean.
(b) Establish an interval estimate that should include the population mean 68.3 percent of
the time.
Sample Mean 217.00
Sample size 64
Std Dev 13.60147
Choose Level of
confidence 0.683
  SE 1.700184
 Lower Upper
Confidence Interval Limit Limit
1.70 215.30 218.70