A consumer products testing group is evaluating two competing brands of tires, Brand 1 and Brand 2 . To do this, the group chooses 13 ars at random and installs both brands on each car. After all of the cars are driven over the standard test course for 20,000 miles, the amount of tread wear (in inches) on each brand of tire on each car is recorded. The data and the differences (Brand 1 minus Brand 2) are shown in the table below.
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Assume that the population of these differences in tread wear (Brand 1 minus Brand 2) is approximately normally distributed.
Construct a
Lower limit: [
Upper limit:
Round these values to two decimal places to get the final answer. The lower limit of the 90% confidence interval for the population mean difference in tread wear between the two brands is
Step 1 :The problem is asking for a 90% confidence interval for the population mean difference in tread wear between the two brands. To calculate this, we need to use the formula for a confidence interval which is:
Step 2 :First, we need to calculate the sample mean and the sample standard deviation of the differences. The differences are [ 0.91, -0.32, 0.01, 0.95, 0.26, 0.85, 0.8, 0.37, 0.94, 0.21, 0.1, 0, -0.39]. The sample size
Step 3 :The sample mean
Step 4 :The sample standard deviation
Step 5 :Substitute these values into the formula for the confidence interval to find the lower and upper limits. The z-score
Step 6 :Round these values to two decimal places to get the final answer. The lower limit of the 90% confidence interval for the population mean difference in tread wear between the two brands is