A Retired Statistician Was Interested in Determining the Average Cost

question 95

Multiple Choice

A retired statistician was interested in determining the average cost of a $200,000.00 term life insurance policy for a 60-year-old male non-smoker. He randomly sampled 65 subjects (60-year-old male non-smokers) and constructed the following 95 percent confidence interval for the mean cost of the term life insurance: ($850.00, $1050.00) . What value of alpha was used to create this confidence interval?

• A) 0.10
• B) 0.05
• C) 0.025
• D) 0.01

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Capital Lease

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Operating Lease

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Operating Cash Flows

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GAAP

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