TABLE 12-3
The director of cooperative education at a state college wants to examine the effect of cooperative education job experience on marketability in the work place. She takes a random sample of four students. For these four, she finds out how many times each had a cooperative education job and how many job offers they received upon graduation. These data are presented in the table below.

-Referring to Table 12-3, suppose the director of cooperative education wants to construct two 95% confidence interval estimates. One is for the mean number of job offers received by students who have had exactly one cooperative education job and one for people who have had two. The confidence interval for students who have had one cooperative education job would be the wider of the two intervals.

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TABLE 12-3
The director of cooperative education at a state college wants to examine the effect of cooperative education job experience on marketability in the work place. She takes a random sample of four students. For these four, she finds out how many times each had a cooperative education job and how many job offers they received upon graduation. These data are presented in the table below.
 
-Referring to Table 12-3, suppose the director of cooperative education wants to construct two 95% confidence interval estimates. One is for the mean number of job offers received by students who have had exactly one cooperative education job and one for people who have had two. The confidence interval for students who have had one cooperative education job would be the wider of the two intervals.

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The width of a confidence interval depends on the sample size and variability. Without specific data, we cannot assume which group will have a wider interval.

TABLE 12-3 The Director of Cooperative Education at a State College Wants