To test the durability of cell phone screens, phones are dropped from a height of 1 meter until they break. A random sample of 40 phones was selected from each of two manufacturers. The phones in the samples were dropped until the screens broke. The difference in the mean number of drops was recorded and used to construct the 90 percent confidence interval (0.46, 1.82) to estimate the population difference in means. Consider the sampling procedure taking place repeatedly. Each time samples are selected, the phones are dropped and the statistics are used to construct a 90 percent confidence interval for the difference in means. Which of the following statements is a correct interpretation of the intervals?
A. Approximately 90 percent of the intervals will extend from 0.46 to 1.82.
B. Approximately 90 percent of the intervals constructed will capture the difference in sample means.
C. Approximately 90 percent of the intervals constructed will capture the difference in population means.
D. Approximately 90 percent of the intervals constructed will capture at least one of the sample means.
E. Approximately 90 percent of the intervals constructed will capture at least one of the population means.

A confidence interval is built from a sample, has bounds a and b, and has a confidence level of x%. It means that we are x% confident that the population mean is between a and b.

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90% confidence interval for the difference in population means is of (0.46, 1.82). This means that we are 90% sure that the true difference between the population means is between these two values, and approximately 90% of intervals will capture this, which means that the correct answer is given by option C.

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25-05-2021

Answer:

C. Approximately 90 percent of the intervals constructed will capture the difference in population means.

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