Construct Confidence Intervals for a Mean Response
-Construct A $95 \%$

question 23

Multiple Choice

Construct Confidence Intervals for a Mean Response
-Construct a $95 \%$ confidence interval about the mean value of $y$ , given $x = - 3.5 , \hat { y } = 2.097 x - 0.552$ and $s _ { e } = 0.976$ .
$\begin{array}{l|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}\mathrm{x} & -5 & -3 & 4 & 1 & -1 & -2 & 0 & 2 & 3 & -4 \\\hline \mathrm{y} & -10 & -8 & 9 & 1 & -2 & -6 & -1 & 3 & 6 & -8\end{array}$

• A) \(( - 8.921 , - 6.862 )\)
• B) \(( - 10.367 , - 5.417 )\)
• C) \(( - 4.598 , - 1.986 )\)
• D) \(( - 12.142 , - 6.475 )\)

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