AP Statistics Quiz 10.

1 Name:
1. You construct three 88% confidence intervals:

A. t-interval with 6 degrees of freedom.

B. t-interval with 2 degrees of freedom.
C. z-interval based upon a sample of size n = 30.

Assuming the standard deviation is the same for all three intervals, write the three intervals (A, B, and C) in
order, from narrowest to widest.

2. Find the critical value t* that you would use for a confidence interval for a population mean in each of the
following settings.

(a) A 95% confidence interval based on a random sample of 20 observations

(b) A 90% confidence interval from an SRS of 51 observations.

3. Below are graphical representations of two different samples from two different populations. In each case,
discuss whether the Normal/Large Sample condition for constructing a one-sample t interval has been
satisfied.
(a)
2 012 [n = 12]
2 667 (b)
3 03
3 5
4 1
4
5 1
5 7

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4. About 217,000 high school students took the AP Statistics exam in 2017. The free-response section of the
exam consisted of five open-ended problems and an investigative task. Each free-response question is
scored on a 0 to 4 scale (with 4 being the best). For one of the problems, a random sample of 30 student
papers yielded a mean score of x 1.267 and a standard deviation of s x 1.230.

(a) Find and interpret the standard error of the mean.

(b) Construct and interpret a 99% confidence interval to estimate the true mean score on this question.

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AP Statistics Quiz 10.2 Name:

1. Mrs. Toguchi wants to determine if politicians tend to have higher salaries, on average, than first
responders (specifically emergency medical technicians, EMTs). Independent random samples from each
of these two professions were selected and their salaries were recorded. The data are summarized below.

Politicians EMTs
Mean $61,234 $54,529
Standard Deviation $7,524 $5,551
n 50 100

(a) The distribution of salary in each group is skewed right. The use of two-sample t procedures is still
justified. Why?

(b) Construct and interpret a 99% confidence interval for the difference in the true mean salaries for
politicians and EMTs.

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2. This past fall, temperatures in a particular city seemed to fluctuate tremendously. The days often felt like
summer and the nights often felt like winter. A weather analyst selected a simple random sample of 9 days
from this past fall and recorded the high and low temperature in this city for each of the days.

Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
High Temp F 78 85 72 82 78 77 80 78 82
Low Temp F 42 50 44 48 48 45 45 41 47

(a) Make a dotplot of the difference (High – Low) in temperature for each day.

(b) Historically, fall high and low temperatures on a given day differ by 30 F, on average. Describe what
the graph reveals about whether temperatures differed more than usual this past fall.

(c) Calculate the mean difference in temperature and the standard deviation of the differences. Interpret the
mean difference.

(d) A 99% confidence interval for the true mean difference (High – Low) in daily temperature is (30.242,
36.869). Based on this interval, is there convincing evidence that the daily temperature differed by more
than 30 F, on average, this fall? Why or why not?

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