ASSIGNMENT 2 (Monday 20/4/2020)

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QUESTION 1
Suppose a student measuring the boiling temperature of a certain liquid observes the readings (in
degrees Celsius) 102.5, 101.7, 103.1, 100.9, 100.5, and 102.2 on 6 different samples of the liquid. He
calculates the sample mean to be 101.82. If he knows that the standard deviation for this procedure is 1.2
degrees,
(i) what is the confidence interval for the population mean at a 99% confidence level?
(ii) what is the confidence interval for the population mean at a 95% confidence level?
(iii) what is the confidence interval for the population mean at a 90% confidence level?
(iv) what are the consequences of decreasing/ increasing the confidence level (explain what happen
to the alpha, the margin error and the width of the interval)?

QUESTION 2
Yun is curious what proportion of users will click an advertisement that appears on his website. He takes
a random sample of 200200200 users and finds that 343434 of them clicked the advertisement. He's
willing to assume independence between users in the sample. what is the confidence interval for the
population proportion at a 99% confidence level?

DR. BILIANA BIDIN