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"templateType": "anything"}}, "functions": {}, "preamble": {"css": "", "js": ""}, "metadata": {"licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International", "description": "\n\t\t<p>Given mean and sd of 1000 sample returns on a scale of 1 to 7 together with a given score, find the z-score.</p>\n\t\t        <p>Also find the 95% confidence interval for the population mean.</p>\n\t\t", "notes": "\n\t\t<p><strong>17/10/2013:</strong></p>\n\t\t        <p><strong><br /></strong>Created question.</p>\n\t\t"}, "question_groups": [{"pickingStrategy": "all-ordered", "pickQuestions": 0, "name": "", "questions": []}], "type": "question", "rulesets": {}, "variablesTest": {"condition": "", "maxRuns": 100}, "advice": "\n\t<p><strong>a) </strong></p>\n\t    <p>The $z$-score is given by&nbsp;</p>\n\t    <p>\\[z=\\frac{\\var{score}-\\var{samplemean}}{\\var{sstdev}}=\\var{zscore}\\]</p>\n\t    <p>(To 3 decimal places).</p>\n\t    <p><strong>b)</strong></p>\n\t    <p>The lower bound for the 95% confidence 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