The following data are monthly rents (in dollars) of studio as well as one-bedroom apartments in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 2007, obtained from a random sample of such apartments advertised at rent.com in July 2007: 500, 549, 569, 575, 585, 600, 630, 680, 705, 790
The mean of these ten rent prices is $618.3, and the standard deviation is $85.3.
1. Determine the standard error of the sample mean.
2. Describe what the population mean µ means in this context.
3. Determine a 95% confidence interval for µ.