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Five students visiting the student health center for a free dental examination d

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Question

Five students visiting the student health center for a free dental examination during National Dental Hygiene Month were asked how many months had passed since their last visit to a dentist. Their responses were as follows.

Assuming that these five students can be considered a random sample of all students participating in the free checkup program, construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of months elapsed since the last visit to a dentist for the population of students participating in the program. (Give the answer to two decimal places.)


You may need to use the appropriate table in Appendix A to answer this question.

6     18     12     24     27    

Explanation / Answer

The statistical software output for this problem is:

One sample T confidence interval:
: Mean of variable

95% confidence interval results:

Hence,

95% confidence interval will be:

(6.73, 28.07)

Variable Sample Mean Std. Err. DF L. Limit U. Limit Data 17.4 3.8418745 4 6.7332465 28.066753