You've learned how the mean summarizes data and how uncertainty gives us a realistic range of outcomes. Now, let's practice combining these concepts to make smarter business judgments.
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Let's review a website's performance.
Daily Visitors: 1,200, 1,350, 1,150, 1,300 Average Visitors: [[blank:1,250]]
An analysis shows a margin of error of 50 visitors. Confidence Interval: We are 95% confident the true average is between [[blank:1,200]] and [[blank:1,300]].
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- 1,250
- 1,200
- 1,300
- 1,150
- 1,350
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Practice Question
A retail store's average daily sale is $2,500. One day, a corporate client makes a single $50,000 purchase. How will this one large sale affect the daily average for that period?
A. It will slightly decrease the average. B. It will have no effect on the average. C. It will significantly increase the average. D. It's impossible to tell.
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- A
- B
- C - Correct
- D
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Practice Question
Sort these factors based on whether they INCREASE or DECREASE your confidence in a statistical estimate.
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- Increases Confidence
- Decreases Confidence
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