The following account balances appear on a year-end trial balance: Merchandise Inventory, $65,000; Purchases, $250,000; Sales, $600,000; Freight-in, $8,500; Sales Returns and Allowances, $7,000; and Purchase Returns and Allowances, $4,000. The ending inventory is $45,000. What is the cost of goods sold

The average u. s. household has $178,600 in life insurance. the standard deviation is $25,500. a local insurance agent would like to see how households in his city compare to the national average, and selects a simple random sample of 30 households from the city. for the households in the city, the average amount of life insurance is $188,800. a. based on the sample results, construct a 95% confidence interval for the true average amount of life insurance for households in the city. b. test the h0 : $178,600 ? ? to determine if the city's sample average is significantly different from the u. s. average amount of life insurance per household. use the conventional levels of significance.