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AP Statistics Confidence Interval Quiz

This document contains a take home quiz on confidence intervals with 3 multi-part questions that ask students to calculate confidence intervals from sample data and interpret the results. The questions provide sample data on body temperatures, the proportion of middle school students who have been drunk, and hospital length of stay to construct 95% confidence intervals and determine if population parameters are contained within the intervals.

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AP Statistics Confidence Interval Quiz

This document contains a take home quiz on confidence intervals with 3 multi-part questions that ask students to calculate confidence intervals from sample data and interpret the results. The questions provide sample data on body temperatures, the proportion of middle school students who have been drunk, and hospital length of stay to construct 95% confidence intervals and determine if population parameters are contained within the intervals.

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Take Home Quiz: Confidence Interval

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1) On day two of a study on body temperatures, 106 temperatures were taken. Suppose that we only
have the first 10 temperatures to work with. The mean and standard deviation of these 10 scores
were 98.44o F and 0.30o F, respectively. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean of all body
temperatures.

Doctor’s claim that the True average body temperature is 98.6 F (37 C). Is this likely correct. Explain?

2) A national health organization warns that 30% of the middle school students nationwide have
been drunk. Concerned, a local health agency randomly and anonymously surveys 110 of the
middle 1212 middle school students in its city. Only 21 of them report having been drunk.
a) What proportion of the sample reported having been drunk?

b) Does this mean that this city’s youth are not drinking as much as the national data would
indicate?
c) Create a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of the city’s middle school students who
have been drunk.

d) Is there any reason to believe that the national level of 30% is not true of the middle school
students in the city?

3) Health insurers and the federal government are both putting pressure on hospitals to shorten the
average length of stay (LOS) of their patients. A random sample of 27 hospitals in one state had a
mean LOS in 2020 of 3.8 days and a standard deviation of 1.2 days.
a) Construct a 95% confidence interval to estimate the population mean of the LOS for the state’s
hospitals in 2020 and interpret it.

b) What is the margin of error?

c) Is a 99% confidence interval wider or narrower than a 95% confidence interval? Explain.

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