Acid rain accumulations in lakes and streams in the northeastern part of the United States are a major environmental concern. A researcher wants to know what fraction of lakes contain hazardous pollution levels. He randomly selects 200 lakes and determines that 45 of the selected lakes have as unsafe concentration of acid rain pollution. (a) Calculate the best point estimate of the population proportion of lakes that have unsafe concentrations of acid rain pollution.

(b) Determine a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion.

(c) If a local politician states that only 20% of the lakes are contaminated, does the study provide overwhelming evidence at the 95% level to contradict his views?

During your cycling trip, you and your friends often stayed in hostels. the prices of these are listed below. hostel standard room (price per night) with breakfast (price per night) super sleep hostels £22.45 £28.65 normandy nights £18.55 £25 zzzola hostels £24.50 £30.99 belgian beds £11.20 £18.55 night-time rest days ? £33 what is the range in cost for a single night, including both standard room prices and with breakfast prices?

Assume that y varies inversely with x. if y=1.6 when x=0.5 find x when y=3.2

Jobs and productivity! how do retail stores rate? one way to answer this question is to examine annual profits per employee. the following data give annual profits per employee (in units of 1 thousand dollars per employee) for companies in retail sales. assume σ ≈ 4.0 thousand dollars. 3.7 6.7 3.6 8.5 7.5 5.9 8.7 6.4 2.6 2.9 8.1 −1.9 11.9 8.2 6.4 4.7 5.5 4.8 3.0 4.3 −6.0 1.5 2.9 4.8 −1.7 9.4 5.5 5.8 4.7 6.2 15.0 4.1 3.7 5.1 4.2 (a) use a calculator or appropriate computer software to find x for the preceding data. (round your answer to two decimal places.) thousand dollars per employee (b) let us say that the preceding data are representative of the entire sector of retail sales companies. find an 80% confidence interval for μ, the average annual profit per employee for retail sales. (round your answers to two decimal places.) lower limit -- thousand dollars upper limit -- thousand dollars (c) let us say that you are the manager of a retail store with a large number of employees. suppose the annual profits are less than 3 thousand dollars per employee. do you think this might be low compared with other retail stores? explain by referring to the confidence interval you computed in part (b). yes. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee are less than those of other retail stores. no. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee do not differ from those of other retail stores. correct: your answer is correct. (d) suppose the annual profits are more than 6.5 thousand dollars per employee. as store manager, would you feel somewhat better? explain by referring to the confidence interval you computed in part (b). yes. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee are greater than those of other retail stores. no. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee do not differ from those of other retail stores. (e) find an 95% confidence interval for μ, the average annual profit per employee for retail sales. (round your answers to two decimal places.) lower limit 3.75 incorrect: your answer is incorrect. thousand dollars upper limit 6.41 incorrect: your answer is incorrect. thousand dollars