HP 50g Graphing Calculator User Manual

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Example 5 – Determine a 95% confidence interval for the mean of the
population if a sample of 50 elements has a mean of 15.5 and a standard
deviation of 5. The population’s standard deviation is unknown.

Press

‚Ù—@@@OK@@@ to access the confidence interval feature in the

calculator. Press

— — @@@OK@@@ to select option 5. T-INT: μ. Enter the

following values:

When done, press

@@@OK@@@. The results, as text and graph, are shown below:

The figure shows the Student’s t pdf for

ν = 50 – 1 = 49 degrees of freedom.

Example 6 -- Determine the 99% confidence interval for the difference in means
of two populations given the sample data:

⎯x

1

= 157.8 ,

⎯x

2

= 160.0, n

1

= 50,

n

2

= 55. The populations standard deviations are s

1

= 13.2, s

2

= 24.5.

Press

‚Ù—@@@OK@@@ to access the confidence interval feature in the

calculator. Press

—@@@OK@@@ to select option 6. T-INT: μ1−μ2.. Enter the

following values:

hen done, press

@@@OK@@@. The results, as text and graph, are shown below:

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