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A hospital administration wants to estimate the mean time spent by patients waiting for treatment at the emergency room. The waiting times (in minutes) recorded for a random sample of some patients are given below. The population standard deviation is not known. 20, 17, 48, 70, 47, 60, 51, 64, 25, 35, 29, 30, 35, 62, 96, 104, 58, 32, 35, 102, 27, 50, 21, 64, 62, 72, 39, 92, 84, 47, 12, 33, 55, 80, 36. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the corresponding population mean.

          A hospital administration wants to estimate the mean time spent by patients waiting for treatment at the emergency room. The waiting times (in minutes) recorded for a random sample of some patients are given below. The population standard deviation is not known. 20, 17, 48, 70, 47, 60, 51, 64, 25, 35, 29, 30, 35, 62, 96, 104, 58, 32, 35, 102, 27, 50, 21, 64, 62, 72, 39, 92, 84, 47, 12, 33, 55, 80, 36. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the corresponding population mean.
        
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A hospital administration wants to estimate the mean time spent by patients waiting for treatment at the emergency room. The waiting times (in minutes) recorded for a random sample of some patients are given below. The population standard deviation is not known. 20, 17, 48, 70, 47, 60, 51, 64, 25, 35, 29, 30, 35, 62, 96, 104, 58, 32, 35, 102, 27, 50, 21, 64, 62, 72, 39, 92, 84, 47, 12, 33, 55, 80, 36. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the corresponding population mean.

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A hospital administration wants to estimate the mean time spent by patients waiting for treatment at the emergency room. The waiting times (in minutes) recorded for a random sample of some patients are given below. The population standard deviation is not known. 20, 17, 48, 70, 47, 60, 51, 64, 25, 35, 29, 30, 35, 62, 96, 104, 58, 32, 35, 102, 27, 50, 21, 64, 62, 72, 39, 92, 84, 47, 12, 33, 55, 80, 36. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the corresponding population mean.
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00:01 In this question, let's first find out standard mean which is equal to 1 divided by l.
00:06 Summation of xi, i equals to 1 to n.
00:11 Therefore, we can substitute the values x bar which is equal to 1 divided by 35 multiplied by 30 plus 7 plus 68 plus 76 plus 47 plus up to all, 55 plus 84 plus 36 so we get this as 1 divided by 35 multiplied by 1806 which is equal to 51 .6 now similarly we can find out standard deviation which is equals to we can write down the formula as under root of under root of 1 divided by n minus 1 summation of i equals to 1 to n x i minus of x bar square so on a simplification let's substitute the values and it becomes under root of under root of 1 divided by 35 multiplied by 4666 .56 plus 1 989 .16 plus up to 1 .10.
01:31 49 .76 plus 243 .36.
01:38 So on a further simplification we get this as under root of 1 divided by 34...
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