A Confidence Interval When the Population Standard Deviation Is Unknown and Small Sample Case · Exercise 1

A hospital is trying to cut down on emergency room wait times. It is interested in the amount of time patients must wait before being called back to be examined. An investigation committee randomly surveyed 70 patients. The sample mean was 1.5 hours with a sample standard deviation of 0.5 hours.

Identify the following:

(a) $\bar{x}$ =_______
(b) $s_x$ =_______
(c) n =_______
(d) n – 1 =_______

Its source prints no answer for this problem, so there's nothing to check against.

OpenStax, Introductory Business Statistics 2e · §8.2 A Confidence Interval When the Population Standard Deviation Is Unknown and Small Sample Case · Exercise 1