The Ball Corporation's beverage can manufacturing plant in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, uses a metal supplier that provides metal with a known thickness standard deviation σ = .000586 mm. Assume a random sample of 59 sheets of metal resulted in an x¯ = .2905 mm. Calculate the 95 percent confidence interval for the true mean metal thickness.

The 95 percent confidence interval for the true mean metal thickness is between 0.2903 mm and 0.2907 mm

Step-by-step explanation:

We have that to find our level, that is the subtraction of 1 by the confidence interval divided by 2. So:

Now, we have to find z in the Ztable as such z has a pvalue of .

So it is z with a pvalue of , so

Now, find the margin of error M as such

In which is the standard deviation of the population and n is the size of the sample.

The lower end of the interval is the sample mean subtracted by M. So it is 0.2905 - 0.0002 = 0.2903 mm

The upper end of the interval is the sample mean added to M. So it is 0.2905 + 0.0002 = 0.2907 mm

The 95 percent confidence interval for the true mean metal thickness is between 0.2903 mm and 0.2907 mm

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