In a random sample of 120 batteries produced by a certain me…

In a random sample of 120 batteries produced by a certain method, the sample average lifetime was 135 hours and the sample standard deviation was 12 hours. An engineer claims that using standard statistical methods that mean lifetime is between 132.452 and 137.548 hours but forgot what alpha was.  Assume the data are normally distributed. In order to reverse engineer the interval and figure out alpha we first need to find the “critical value” that was used in the creation of the interval, i.e. a distributional percentile that is used when creating a CI  Hint: We used CI to solve for sample size n, but now we need to solve for something else.

What type of supporting material is represented in the follo…

What type of supporting material is represented in the following speech excerpt? “We cannot overemphasize the need for clarity in teaching. One story is told of an old, dedicated nun who had spent the entire year in a second-grade class grinding her definition of God into the minds of her second-graders. ‘God is the supreme being.’ At the parents’ program at the end of the year, the nun confidently asked little Bobby to give the definition of God. Bobby stood up, straightened his shirt, took a deep breath, and said, ‘God is a string bean.’”