Worksheet practice for chapter 9.2

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The human heart has a mean resting heart rate (RHR)of 72 beats per minute (bpm). The table gives the heart rates for students in ESS 101j Joggling class.

  1. _________ Calculate the sample size n.
  2. _________ Calculate the sample mean x.
  3. _________ Calculate the sample standard deviation sx.
  4. _________ What is the point estimate for the population mean μ?
  5. _________ Calculate the standard error SE.
  6. _________ Calculate the number of degrees of freedom.
  7. _________ Calculate t-critical tc for a confidence level c of 95% (0.95)
  8. _________ Calculate the margin of error E.
  9. Calculate the 95% confidence interval for the population mean μ

    p(__________ ≤ μ ≤ __________) = 0.95
  10. _________ Does the 95% confidence interval include the possibility of 72 bpm?
Confidence interval statistics
Statistic or ParameterSymbolEquationsOpenOffice
Degrees of freedomdfn − 1 =COUNT(data)-1
Find a tcritical value from a confidence level c tc =TINV(1-c;df)
Standard error of the sample mean SE SE sx =STDEV(data)/SQRT(sample size n)
Calculate a margin of error for the mean E for n ≥ 5 using sx. E error tolerance tc =tc*sx/SQRT(n)
Calculate a confidence interval for a population mean μ from a sample mean x and an error tolerance E x − E ≤ μ ≤ x + E