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Meteorologists are interested in the relationship between minimum pressure and maximum wind speed of hurricanes. The minimum pressure, in millibars, and maximum wind speed, in knots, were collected for a random sample of 100 hurricanes from the year 1995 to the year 2012. A regression analysis of maximum wind speed on minimum wind pressure produced a 95 percent confidence interval of (-1.42, -1.20) for the slope of the least-squares regression line. Which statement is a correct interpretation of the interval?

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We can be 95% confident that wind speed decreases, on average, between 1.20 knots and 1.42 knots for each millibar increase in minimum pressure.

Step-by-step explanation:

The computed confidence interval for a certain statistical parameter gives a range of value represented by a minimum value and a maximum value. The α value upon which the value was calculated represents the probability of the estimated value containing the true value of the parameter in question.

The minimum and maximum values represents the range of possible slope parameters, the true value falls in between two negative values, thus we have a negative slope, depicting a decline in one variable and the as the other increases.

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We can be 95% confident that wind speed decreases, on average, between 1.20 knots and 1.42 knots for each millibar increase in minimum pressure.

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