A)the federal government purchases
new defense equipment.
b)nick receives a weekly amount from
the government because he became
unemployed when his company cut
costs by laying off employees.
c)gloria is a 70-year-old retired woman.
she pays her expenses with the income
she receives from the government.
d) the government is planning to build
more highways.
jill receives inpatient hospital services
even though she cannot afford them.
the government funds a scientific
research project.
match those with these:
1-discretionary spending
2-mandatory spending

The average u.s. household has $178,600 in life insurance. the standard deviation is $25,500. a local insurance agent would like to see how households in his city compare to the national average, and selects a simple random sample of 30 households from the city. for the households in the city, the average amount of life insurance is $188,800. a. based on the sample results, construct a 95% confidence interval for the true average amount of life insurance for households in the city. b. test the h0 : $178,600 ? ? to determine if the city's sample average is significantly different from the u.s. average amount of life insurance per household. use the conventional levels of significance.