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STAT 345 - Summer, 2006 - Quiz 12

Based on section: 8.3
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1. The wall thickness of 16 glass 2-liter bottles was measured by a quality-

control engineer. The sample mean was x̄ = 4.05 millimeters, and the
sample standard deviation was s = 0.08 millimeter. Find a 95% confi-
dence interval for mean wall thickness. Interpret the interval you have
obtained. State any necessary assumptions about the underlying dis-
tribution of the data.

As n = 16 we will use the small sample procedure.

Assume the data are iid and normally distributed.

Par = µ = the true pop. mean wall thickness of 2-liter glass bottles
Est = x̄ = 4.05 mm
SE(Est) = √sn = 0.084
Dist = t(13) ⇒ t α2 = 2.160

Therefore, a 95% confidence interval for the population mean, µ, is

x̄ ± t α2 √sn = 4.05 ± 2.160 0.08
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= 4.05 ± 0.043 = 4.007 mm to 4.093mm.
We are 95% confident that the true mean wall thickness of 2-liter glass
bottles is between 4.01mm and 4.09mm.