T Intervals for Means

An IQ test was given to a simple random sample of 75 students at a certain college. The sample mean score was 105.2. Scores on this test are known to have a standard deviation of 10. It is desired to construct a 90% confidence interval for the mean IQ scores of the students at the college.

What is the point estimate?

• 75

• 105.2

• 10

• 0.90

An IQ test was given to a simple random sample of 75 students at a certain college. The sample mean score was 105.2. Scores on this test are known to have a standard deviation of 10. It is desired to construct a 90% confidence interval for the mean IQ scores of the students at the college.

Find the Standard Error.

• 75

• 10

• 105.2

• 1.155

Which confidence would result in a wider interval (assuming nothing else changed), 91% or 97%?

• 97%, z* is larger for higher confidence intervals

• 97%, the standard error is larger for higher confidence intervals

• 91%, z* is larger for lower confidence intervals

• 91%, the standard error is smaller for lower confidence intervals

Does the interval (3, 14) support the claim that the mean of a data set is 2.9

• Yes

• No

• Not enough information.

Which of the following is an example of an interval estimate?

• point estimate 

• critical value

• confidence interval

• statistic

A __________ gives an interval of plausible values for the _____________. 

• confidence interval, statistic

• point estimate, parameter

• point estimate, statistic

• confidence interval, parameter

I randomly select 25 students’ Math SAT scores and find the mean to be 600. I know the standard deviation of the population is 50. Find a 95% Confidence Interval.

Identify the Variables

• 600

• n

• 2.064

• x-bar

• 50

• t*

• 25

• σ

I randomly select 25 students’ Math SAT scores and find the mean to be 600. I know the standard deviation of the population is 50. Find a 95% Confidence Interval.

• 95% confident the sample mean is between 580.4 and 619.6

• 95% confident the population mean is between 583.55 and 616.45

• 95% confident the population mean is between 579.36 and 620.64

• 95% confident the population mean is between 574.2 and 625.8

You sample 16 students in your school, and they average 13 hours of TV a week. Assume the standard deviation is 3. Find a 99% Confidence Interval.

• 99% confident the population mean is between 11.77 and 14. 23

• 99% confident the population mean is between 11.53 and 14.47

• 99% confident the sample mean is between 11.06 and 14.96

• 99% confident the population mean is between 10.79 and 15.21

Find the t* value for a 99% confidence interval with a sample of 23 people.

• 2.807

• 2.508

• 2.064

• 2.819