What is the average mercury level of fish (Large Mouth Bass) in Florida lakes?
Apply the Central Limit Theorem OR create a sampling distribution by running at least 6000 samples in StatKey.
Average Mercury ppm
| 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.1 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.18 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| 0.19 | 0.21 | 0.25 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.28 | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.34 |
| 0.34 | 0.4 | 0.41 | 0.43 | 0.44 | 0.48 | 0.48 | 0.49 | 0.49 | 0.5 |
| 0.5 | 0.52 | 0.56 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 0.77 |
| 0.81 | 0.83 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.87 | 0.94 | 0.98 | 1.08 | 1.1 | 1.16 |
| 1.2 | 1.23 | 1.33 |
Sample Statistics
| 53 | 0.52717 | 0.34104 |
The data is also available at StatKey, select CI for Single Mean, Median, St.Dev., then change the data set to Florida Lakes (Mercury in Fish).
Find a 90% confidence interval for the average parts per million of Mercury in fish in Florida lakes.
- Point estimate for the mean =
- Error Bound on the Mean =
- Confidence Interval =
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