Thomas wants to save money for college, and is considering two different savings accounts in which to hold his money. The first account has an interest rate of 9%, compounded semi-annually. The second account has an interest rate of 5%, and is compounded monthly. If he deposits $5,000.00 in one of the accounts, and intends to let the money sit in the account for 8 years, which account will have the higher balance at the end of 8 years?

Use the given degree of confidence and sample data to construct a confidence interval for the population mean mu . assume that the population has a normal distribution. a laboratory tested twelve chicken eggs and found that the mean amount of cholesterol was 185 milligrams with sequals 17.6 milligrams. a confidence interval of 173.8 mgless than muless than 196.2 mg is constructed for the true mean cholesterol content of all such eggs. it was assumed that the population has a normal distribution. what confidence level does this interval represent?