An auditor, examining a total of 820 accounts receivable of a corporation, took a random sample of

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An auditor, examining a total of 820 accounts receivable of a corporation, took a random sample of 60 of them. The sample mean was $127.43, and the sample standard deviation was $43.27.
a. Using an unbiased estimation procedure, find an estimate of the population mean.
b. Using an unbiased estimation procedure, find an estimate of the variance of the sample mean.
c. Find a 90% confidence interval for the population mean.
d. A statistician found, for the population mean, a confidence interval running from $117.43 to $137.43.
What is the probability content of this interval?
e. Find a 95% confidence interval for the total amount of these 820 accounts. Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivables are debts owed to your company, usually from sales on credit. Accounts receivable is business asset, the sum of the money owed to you by customers who haven’t paid.The standard procedure in business-to-business sales is that...
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Statistics For Business And Economics

ISBN: 9780132745659

8th Edition

Authors: Paul Newbold, William Carlson, Betty Thorne

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