Reading Comprehension Is Arguably the Single Most Important Skill a Student

question 19

Essay

Reading comprehension is arguably the single most important skill a student possesses. To assess the current levels of reading comprehension in 3^rd grade, 25 students were randomly selected from school district class lists and given a reading comprehension test. The distribution of their scores was approximately normal with a mean of 180 and a standard deviation of 20.12. Construct a 99% confidence interval for μ, the population mean.

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