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As part of an annual review of its accounts, a discount brokerage selects a rand

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Question

As part of an annual review of its accounts, a discount brokerage selects a random sample of 28 customers. Their accounts are reviewed for total account valuation, which showed a mean of $31,800, with a sample standard deviation of $8,700. (Use t Distribution Table.)

What is a 98% confidence interval for the mean account valuation of the population of customers? (Round your answers to the nearest dollar amount.)

As part of an annual review of its accounts, a discount brokerage selects a random sample of 28 customers. Their accounts are reviewed for total account valuation, which showed a mean of $31,800, with a sample standard deviation of $8,700. (Use t Distribution Table.)

Explanation / Answer

The statistical software output for this problem is:

One sample T summary confidence interval:
: Mean of population

98% confidence interval results:

Hence,

98% confidence interval will be:

(27735, 35865)

Mean Sample Mean Std. Err. DF L. Limit U. Limit 31800 1644.1455 27 27734.587 35865.413