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Confidence Intervals and Means I looked over your pages but could not find any problems such as these. Please help. The US engergy Information Administration surveys households to obtain data on monthly fuel expenditures for household vehicles. Results of these surveys are contained in Residential transportaion Engergy Consumption Survey, Consumption of Household Vehicles. Suppose one such random sampling of 63 households found an average monthly fuel expenditure of $58.90, with standard deviation $12.75, estimate the mean monthly fuel expenditure.
Any help or forumlas that you have will be greatfully appreciated because I seem to be stuck on these two problems
READERS RESPOND: Re: Confidence Intervals and Means something because you have provided the estimate of the mean monthly fuel ex as $58.90 from the 63 households. Possibly they were looking for some type of Confidence Interval? The second question:
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