Answer to Question #187641 in Statistics and Probability for Ella Ssebulime

Question #187641

The National Center for Education Statistics surveyed 4400 college graduates about the lengths of time

required to earn their bachelor’s degrees. The mean was 5.15 years and the standard deviation was 1.68

years. Based on the above information, construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean time required to

earn a bachelor’s degree by all college students.

The critical value (t*) is ____________________ (use the infinity row ∞

∞ for your degrees of freedom)

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Expert's answer
2021-05-07T10:26:44-0400

We have given,

"\\mu = 5.15"

"\\sigma = 1.68"

n = 4400

Confidence interval can be calculated as,


"CI = \\mu+z \\dfrac{\\sigma}{\\sqrt n}"


"CI = 5.15 \\pm 0.049"


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