Travel Taxes Travelers pay taxes for flying, car rentals, and hotels. The following data

Chapter 9, Problem 36

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Travel Taxes Travelers pay taxes for flying, car rentals, and hotels. The following data represent the total travel tax for a 3-day business trip in eight randomly selected cities. Note: Chicago travel taxes are the highest in the country at $101.27. 67.81 78.69 68.99 84.36 80.24 86.14 101.27 99.29 (a) Determine a point estimate for the population mean travel tax. (b) Use the normal probability plot and boxplot shown next to assist in verifying the requirements for constructing a confidence interval for the mean travel tax. Tax 70 75 80 85 90 100 105 95 (c) Construct and interpret a 95% confidence interval to estimate the mean tax paid for a 3-day business trip. (d) What would you recommend to a researcher who wants to increase the precision of the interval, but does not have access to additional data?

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