How many people live in South African households? To find out, we collected data from an SRS

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How many people live in South African households?

To find out, we collected data from an SRS of 48 out of the over 700,000 South African students who took part in the CensusAtSchool survey project.

The mean number of people living in a household was 6.208; the standard deviation was 2.576.

(a) Is the Normal/Large Sample condition met in this case? Justify your answer.

(b) Maurice claims that a 95% confidence interval for the population mean is 6.208±1.96 2.576

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. Explain why this interval is wrong. Then give the correct interval.

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The Practice Of Statistics

ISBN: 9781464108730

5th Edition

Authors: Daren S. Starnes, Josh Tabor

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