Maher, Barney, and White LLC is a legal firm with 40 employees. All of the firms employees

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Maher, Barney, and White LLC is a legal firm with 40 employees. All of the firm’s employees are eligible to participate in the company’s 401(k) plan, and the firm is proud of its 100% participation rate. The file MBW 401 contains the most recent year-end 401(k) account balance for each of the firm’s 40 employees.
a. Compute the population mean and population standard deviation for the most recent year-end 401(k) account balances at Maher, Barney, and White.
b. Suppose that an audit of the firm’s 401(k) plan is being conducted and 12 randomly selected employee account balances are to be examined. If the following employees (indicated by employee number) are randomly selected to be included in the study, what is the estimate for the most recent year-end mean 401(k) account balance? How much sampling error is present in this estimate?

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c. Calculate the range of possible sampling error if a random sample of 15 employees is used to estimate the most recent year-end mean 401(k) account balance.
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Business Statistics A Decision Making Approach

ISBN: 9780133021844

9th Edition

Authors: David F. Groebner, Patrick W. Shannon, Phillip C. Fry

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