5 Jane, who supplies fruit to a jam manufacturer, knows that the weight of fruit in boxes that she sends to the manufacturer can be modelled by a normal distribution with unknown mean, \(\mu\) grams, and unknown standard deviation, \(\sigma\) grams.
Jane selects a random sample of 16 boxes and, using the \(t\)-distribution, calculates correctly that a \(98 \%\) confidence interval for \(\mu\) is \(( 70.65,80.35 )\).
- Show that the sample mean is 75.5 grams.
- Find the width of the confidence interval.
- Calculate an estimate of the standard error of the mean.
- Hence, or otherwise, show that an unbiased estimate of \(\sigma ^ { 2 }\) is 55.6 , correct to three significant figures.
- Jane decides that the width of the \(98 \%\) confidence interval is too large.
Construct a \(95 \%\) confidence interval for \(\mu\), based on her sample of 16 boxes.
- Jane is informed that the manufacturer would prefer the confidence interval to have a width of at most 5 grams.
- Write down a confidence interval for \(\mu\), again based on Jane's sample of 16 boxes, which has a width of 5 grams.
- Determine the percentage confidence level for your interval in part (c)(i).