SOLUTION: One of yor friends knows that you are taking a stats course and asks for help with her chemistry lab report. She has 5 measurments ofthe melting point of a compound 122.4, 121.8, 1

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Question 303637: One of yor friends knows that you are taking a stats course and asks for help with her chemistry lab report. She has 5 measurments ofthe melting point of a compound 122.4, 121.8, 122.0, 123.0, 122.3 degrees celsius
The lab manual asks for 95% confidence interval estmae for the melting point, how do you find the estimate?
Please help...not sure what to do.

Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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One of yor friends knows that you are taking a stats course and asks for help with her chemistry lab report.
She has 5 measurments of the melting point of a compound:
122.4, 121.8, 122.0, 123.0, 122.3 degrees celsius
The lab manual asks for 95% confidence interval estmate for the melting point, how do you find the estimate?
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sample mean = 122.3
sample std = 0.4583
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standard error: (invT(0.975 with df=4) = 0.5691
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95% CI: 122.3-0.5691 < u < 122.3+0.5691
95% CI: 121.73 < u < 122.87
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Cheers,
Stan H.