Question

9. (12 pts) daniel is paying $600 for his auto insurance, and he is wondering if he is overpaying compared to his friends. he sent an email to all his friends in his contact list, and 9 of them replied with their paid amount. suppose the 9 friends who replied are a random sample, and the paid amount for auto insurance has approximately a normal distribution. (1) (2pts) what are the sample and population of the study? (2) (8 pts) use appropriate inference procedure to help daniel find out if he is overpaying compared to his friends. (3) (2pts) based on your conclusion in (2), what type of error is could you commit? explain the error using context words.

Answer 1

Explanation:

1) The sample and the population of this study is the friends who replied his email which includes in his contact list. then, the number of the replied to his email are 9 friends.

population: the whole friends include in his contact list.

3) Type I error occurs when one incorrectly rejects the null hypothesis

Here there is possibility of type I error