Lab 3

In January 2003, the FAA ordered that passengers be either weighed or surveyed about their weight prior to boarding 10- to 19-seat passenger planes. The order was instituted in response to a crash that occurred on January 8, 2003, in Charlotte, North Carolina, in which all 21 passengers, including the pilot and copilot, of a 19-seat Beech 1900 turboprop died. One possible cause of the crash was that the plane may have been carrying too much weight. (Source: Matthew L. Wald, "Weight estimates on air passengers will be increased," www.nytimes.com, May 13, 2003.) The airlines were asked to weigh adult passengers and carry-on bags randomly over a one-month period to estimate the mean weight per passenger (including luggage). A total of 426 people and their luggage were weighed, and the sample data are contained in a data file called FAA.

Discussion Questions:

1. write a descriptive analysis of the data using charts, graphs, and numerical measures.

2. Construct and interpret a 95% confidence interval estimate for the mean weight for male passengers.

3. Construct and interpret a 95% confidence interval estimate for the mean weight for female passengers.

4. Construct and interpret a 95% confidence interval estimate for the mean weight for all passengers.

5. Indicate what sample size would be required if the margin of error in the estimate for the mean of all passengers is to be reduced by half.

data :

Weight Gender Age 197 Male 55 171 Male 47 212 Male 62 239 Male 49 237 Male 36 252 Male 47 146 Male 46 199 Male 47 235 Male 52 176 Male 62 186 Male 56 159 Male 51 155 Male 67 179 Male 51 184 Male 56 148 Male 44 190 Male 53 194 Male 52 209 Male 55 195 Male 50 196 Male 51 195 Male 54 241 Male 47 203 Male 59 200 Male 57 191 Male 58 258 Male 52 228 Male 57 269 Male 50 187 Male 54 250 Male 42 161 Male 53 220 Male 50 229 Male 61 257 Male 42 203 Male 53 191 Male 48 223 Male 50 195 Male 44 225 Male 53 166 Male 64 182 Male 52 164 Male 65 195 Male 47 204 Male 51 206 Male 49 196 Male 55 264 Male 47 158 Male 61 185 Male 52 135 Male 70 244 Male 52 170 Male 50 187 Male 53 225 Male 55 218 Male 58 229 Male 49 221 Male 48 168 Male 53 175 Male 68 224 Male 45 214 Male 51 180 Male 56 198 Male 56 209 Male 53 220 Male 56 209 Male 47 180 Male 56 256 Male 53 218 Male 59 207 Male 54 227 Male 58 228 Male 48 188 Male 65 180 Male 55 235 Male 44 173 Male 47 163 Male 48 224 Male 46 222 Male 47 265 Male 49 244 Male 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