A Student Wanted to Construct a 95% Confidence Interval for the Mean

question 52

Multiple Choice

A student wanted to construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean age of students in her statistics class. She randomly selected nine students. Their average age was 19.1 years with a sample standard deviation of 1.5 years. What is the best point estimate for the population mean?

• A)2.1 years
• B)1.5 years
• C)19.1 years
• D)9 years

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Definitions:

Convexity

In economics and finance, convexity refers to the shape of the curve that demonstrates how the duration of a bond changes as the interest rate changes.

Production Function

An equation that specifies the output of a firm, an industry, or an entire economy for all combinations of inputs.

Input

Resources used in the production process to create goods or services, including labor, materials, and capital.

Returns To Scale

An economic concept describing how the increase in inputs affects the level of output of a production process.