Question

In order to estimate the mean amount of time computer users spend on the internet each month, how many computer users must be surveyed in order to be 95% confident that your sample mean is within 15 minutes of the population mean? Assume that the standard deviation of the population of monthly time spent on the internet is 192 min.

The minimum sample size required is ___ computer users.

What is a major obstacle to getting a good estimate of the population mean?

a. The data does not provide information on what the computer users did while on the internet.
b. There may not be 630 computer users to survey
c. It is difficult to precisely measure the amount of time spent on the internet, invalidating some data values.
d. There are no obstacles to getting a good estimate of the population mean.

Answer 1

The question is asking to choose among the following choicest that state the major obstacle to get the good estimate of the population mean, base on my own research and further computation, I would say that the answer would be letter b. There may not be 630 computer users to survey. I hope this would help