TABLE 8-5 A Sample of Salary Offers (In Thousands of Dollars) Given

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TABLE 8-5
A sample of salary offers (in thousands of dollars) given to management majors is: 48, 51, 46, 52, 47, 48, 47, 50, 51, and 59. Using this data to obtain a 95% confidence interval resulted in an interval from 47.19 to 52.61.
-Referring to Table 8-5, it is possible that the mean of the population is not between 47.19 and 52.61.

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