Question

Health care workers who use latex gloves with glove powder on a daily basis are particularly susceptible to developing a latex allergy. Each in a sample of 46 hospital employees who were diagnosed with a latex allergy based on a skin-prick test reported on their exposure to latex gloss. Summary statistics for the number of latex gloves used per week are x=19.3 and s=11.9. Complete parts a - d.

a) Give a point estimate for the average number of latex gloves used per week by all health care workers with a latex allergy.

b) Form a 95% confidence interval for the average number of latex gloves used per week by all health care workers with a latex allergy.

c) Give a practical interpretation of the interval, part b.

d) Give the conditions required for the interval, part b, to be valid

Answer 1