A College Admissions Officer Takes a Simple Random Sample of 100

question 89

Multiple Choice

A college admissions officer takes a simple random sample of 100 entering freshmen and computes their mean mathematics SAT score to be 459 . Assume the population standard deviation is $\sigma=103$ .
Construct a $99 \%$ confidence interval for the mean mathematics SAT score for the enterin! freshmen class.

• A) \( 456<\mu<462 \)
• B) \( 356<\mu<562 \)
• C) \( 434<\mu<484 \)
• D) \( 432<\mu< \)

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