A retailer that sells home entertainment systems accumulated 10,451 sales invoices during the previous year. The total

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A retailer that sells home entertainment systems accumulated 10,451 sales invoices during the previous year. The total of the sales amounts listed on these invoices (that is, the total sales claimed by the company) is $6,384,675. In order to estimate the true total sales for last year, an independent auditor randomly selects 350 of the invoices and determines the actual sales amounts by contacting the purchasers. The mean and the standard deviation of the 350 sampled sales amounts are  = $532 and s = $168.
a. Find a 95 percent confidence interval for μ, the true mean sales amount per invoice on the 10,451 invoices.
b. Find a point estimate of and a 95 percent confidence interval for г, the true total sales for the previous year.
c. What does this interval say about the company's claim that the true total sales were $6,384,675? Explain.
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Business Statistics In Practice

ISBN: 9780073401836

6th Edition

Authors: Bruce Bowerman, Richard O'Connell

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