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

0.040.040.050.10.150.160.170.180.190.19
0.190.210.250.270.270.270.280.340.340.34
0.340.40.410.430.440.480.480.490.490.5
0.50.520.560.560.590.630.650.710.730.77
0.810.830.840.860.870.940.981.081.11.16
1.21.231.33

Sample Statistics

n\displaystyle {n} x\displaystyle \overline{{x}} s\displaystyle {s}
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. (zα/2=z0.051.64485)\displaystyle {\left({z}_{{\alpha/{2}}}={z}_{{0.05}}\approx{1.64485}\right)}

  1. Point estimate for the mean =
  2. Error Bound on the Mean =
  3. Confidence Interval =
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