Professors in the Department of Animal Sciences want to esti…

Professors in the Department of Animal Sciences want to estimate the average length of time it takes students to complete a class project correct to within 5 hours with a 98% level of confidence.  Determine the sample size needed to estimate the average length of time required to complete the project to within 5 hours with a 98% level of confidence.  They do not know the standard deviation of the times, but they remember that last year the shortest amount of time needed to complete the project was 5 hours and the longest amount of time was 29 hours.

The owner of a herd of cows wants to determine the influence…

The owner of a herd of cows wants to determine the influence of the ages of his cows on the amount of calving difficulty that occurs in his herd.  He constructs the following table:                             Age of Cow (in years)                                           0-2     3-5     6-10     over 10   Total No difficulty     40      35       20          5            100 Difficult birth   35      45       15          5            100 Total                  75      80       35        10           200   What is the probability that a randomly selected cow either has calving difficulty or is less than 3-years-old?

Suppose we want to estimate the average height of all young…

Suppose we want to estimate the average height of all young growing maple trees found on a certain nursery.  We select a random sample of 25 trees and measure their heights.  The sample mean is 75 inches and the sample standard deviation is 8 inches.  Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean (μ).  Assume that any necessary assumptions have been met.

According to a study conducted at a university, many adults…

According to a study conducted at a university, many adults have experienced lingering “fright” effects from a scary movie or TV show they saw as a teenager.  In a survey of 150 college students, 39 said that they still experience “residual anxiety” from a scary movie or TV show. Perform the calculations needed to determine if the sample size of n = 150 is large enough for large-sample confidence interval procedures to be valid.  Is the sample size large enough?