The Coffee and Soup Machine at the Local Bus Station

question 32

Multiple Choice

The coffee and soup machine at the local bus station is supposed to fill cups with 6 ounces of soup.Ten cups of soup are bought with results of a mean of 5.93 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.13 ounces.How large a sample of soups would we need to be 95 percent confident that the sample mean is within 0.03 ounces of the population mean?

• A)97
• B)96
• C)73
• D)62
• E)10

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Definitions:

Unlearned Reaction

A natural, instinctive response to a stimulus that occurs without the need for prior learning or experience.

Reflexive Reaction

An automatic, involuntary response to a stimulus.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any learning needed.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.