9. You manage a fulfillment center for Amazon. You need to estimate the number of orders that can reasonably be fulfilled by an employee per day so that you can set expectations for new employees. Why and how would a confidence interval be useful in this situation?
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A confidence interval gives you a range of values within which you can be a certain percentage confident (usually 95% or 99%) that the true mean (average) of a population falls. In the context of estimating the number of orders an employee can fulfill per day, a Show more…
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