The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) includes a mathematics test for high school seniors. Scores...
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) includes a mathematics test for high school seniors. Scores on the test range from 0 to 300. The NEAP test is given to a simple random sample of 900 12th graders from large population with μ=150 and σ=35. The sample mean, ??̅, will vary if you take repeated samples.
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Is the sample mean, ?̅, normally distributed? What is ??̅ and ??̅?
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What is the margin of error for a 95% Confidence interval?
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If ?̅ = 148 what is the 95% Confidence Interval?
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Suppose instead of a simple random sample of 900 students, a simple random sample of 1600 students was taken instead. Would the margin of error for the confidence be larger, smaller, stay the same, or is the answer undetermined from the information given? Justify your answer.
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