Overproduction of uric acid in the body can be an indication of cell breakdown this may be an advance indication of illness such as gout leukemia or lymphoma over a period of months an adult male patient has taken nine blood tests for uric acid. the mean concentration was x=5.35 mg/dl. the distribution of uric acid in healthy adult males can be assumed to be normal with o=1.79 mg/dl

answer: 95%ci is mean +/1 1.96*sigma/sqrt(n); interval is +/- 1.96*1.95/sqrt(13)=1.06, which is the margin of error.

the interval is 5.35+/- 1.06 or (4.29, 6.41)  

without looking at the choices, this means that the true value for the patient is highly likely to be in this interval. the true value, of course, is either in the interval or isn't, which is a 0-100% probability question, not . one can be highly confident, however, that the true value is in this interval.  

stated another way, if there were 100 cis constructed, 95 of them would contain the true value. we just don't know which 95 of them.  

with the choices above, the second from the bottom "there is a 95% chance " would be the answer.  

for the sample size, 1.96*1.95/sqrt(n) < =1.10

1.1 sqrt(n)> =3.822, sqrt (n) > =3.474, n> =12.07 or 13

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