You are asked to perform study of shelters for abused and battered women to dete

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You are asked to perform study of shelters for abused and battered women to determine the necessary capacity in your city to provide housing for most of these women. After recording data for a whole year, you find that the mean number of women in shelters each night is 250, with a standard deviation of 75. Fortunately, the distribution of the number of women in the shelters each night is normal, so you can answer the following question posed by the city.

How many beds will they have 95% of the time. Please round to a whole number.

If there are not enough beds 95% of the time, what number of shelter openings (how many more beds) will be needed? Please round to a whole number.

Explanation / Answer

Given = 250, = 75

C.I = xbar + zalpha/2 × S.E

C.I = 250 + 1.96 × 75

C.I = 250 + 147

C.I = (103, 397)

397 would be the enough places for abused women on 95% of all nights.

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