Chapter 8 Quiz for Practice: Confidence Intervals

Learning Objectives:

1.  Construct confidence intervals for a population mean.

2.  Construct confidence intervals for a population proportion.

3.  Interpret the confidence level and decide what confidence level to use depending on the severity of not capturing the population parameter.

4.  Interpret confidence intervals.

5.  Determine the minimum sample size required to guarantee that the confidence interval will have a margin of error no more than a given value.

Before you work on this homework assignment it is recommended that you participate in or watch the webinar on this chapter, read the material on this chapter from the textbook and ask your instructor, a tutor, or fellow students for help when there is a concept that is unclear to you.  If you are not sure how to solve any of the problems, go to the "hint", "textbook pages" or "example videos" for further clarification on the topic.  

Please answer all the questions on this homework assignment.  You will be able to retake it as many times as you wish before the due date and only your highest score will be included in your course grade.  The purpose of this assignment is to learn the concepts and not to just get the answers correct, so please make sure you fully understand the concepts before moving on.

Good luck!

Student Learning Outcomes Addressed in this Quiz:

4.  Apply confidence intervals and test hypotheses to make conclusions about data that come from practical applications.