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A soccer ball manufacturer wants to estimate the mean circumference of soccer balls within 0.1 in. Determine the minimum sample size required to construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume the population standard deviation is 0.25 in.

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Answer from: rachel2005smith

$n=(\frac{z_{\alpha/2} \sigma}{ME})^2$ (2)

The critical value for 95% of confidence interval now can be founded using the normal distribution. And in excel we can use this formla to find it:"=-NORM.INV(0.025,0,1)", and we got $z_{\alpha/2}=1.96$ , replacing into formula (2) we got:

$n=(\frac{1.96(0.25)}{0.1})^2 =24.01$

So the answer for this case would be n=25 rounded up to the nearest integer

Step-by-step explanation:

Previous concepts

A confidence interval is "a range of values that’s likely to include a population value with a certain degree of confidence. It is often expressed a % whereby a population means lies between an upper and lower interval".

The margin of error is the range of values below and above the sample statistic in a confidence interval.

Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".

$\bar X$ represent the sample mean for the sample

$\mu$ population mean (variable of interest)

$\sigma=0.25$ represent the population standard deviation

n represent the sample size (variable of interest)

Solution to the problem

The confidence interval for the mean is given by the following formula:

$\bar X \pm z_{\alpha/2}\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}$

The margin of error is given by this formula:

$ME=z_{\alpha/2}\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}$ (1)

And on this case we have that ME =0.1 and we are interested in order to find the value of n, if we solve n from equation (1) we got:

$n=(\frac{z_{\alpha/2} \sigma}{ME})^2$ (2)

$n=(\frac{1.96(0.25)}{0.1})^2 =24.01$

So the answer for this case would be n=25 rounded up to the nearest integer

Answer from: Quest

∠lno ≅ ∠lnm

∠oln ≅ ∠mln

step-by-step explanation:

given that triangle lno is congruent to triangle lnm.

we have to fill up the blanks in the given question.

according to above order of congruency kept in mind we can say that

∠lno ≅ ∠lnm

∠oln ≅ ∠mln

ln ≅ ln due to common in both.

hence, by sas congruency,

the side angle side rule states that if two sides and the included angle of one triangle are congruent to another triangle, then these two triangles are congruent.

Answer from: Quest

the equation cos(35) =a/25 can be used to find the length of bc what is the length of bc? round to the nearest tenth

step-by-step explanation: