t’s easy to complain about waiting in line to vote, but if you shift your thinking, every minute in line is a little more time you can justify reading something you love without the guilt of feeling you should be doing something else. no one will begrudge you that novel at 3pm in the afternoon – you’re doing your civic duty! so, imagine that the average person reads a page in 2 minutes, and there are on average about 10 pages in a chapter, meaning the average chapter takes 20 minutes to read. now, you receive a report that 80 random people at your polling place were asked how long they waited to vote, and the average was 59.2 minutes with a standard deviation of 4.2 minutes. given this, what is your estimate with 95% confidence of the true number of chapters you’ll be able to read while waiting at the same polling place? (hint, do what you need to do with the data in units of minutes, then quickly divide your answers by 20 at the end to get the estimates in terms of chapters).
