Question 8.301

wiisales

39. Wii Game Sales. The following table represents the number of units sold in the United States for the week ending March 26, 2011, for a random sample of eight Wii games.24 The normality of the data was confirmed in the Section 8.1 exercises. Construct and interpret a 99% confidence interval for .

Game Units
(1000s)
Game Units
(1000s)
Wii Sports Resort 65 Zumba Fitness 56
Super Mario All Stars 40 Wii Fit Plus 36
Just Dance 2 74 Michael Jackson 42
New Super Mario
Brothers
16 Lego Star Wars 110
Table 8.34: Source: www.vgchartz.com, April 1, 2011.

8.4.39

(16.86, 76.33). We are 99% confident that the population standard deviation lies between 16.86 thousand units and 76.33 thousand units.