The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 24 - Inference about Variables: Part IV Review - Test Yourself - Page 567: 24.15

Answer

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Work Step by Step

The sample size is at least $30$, thus the central limit theorem tells us that the sampling distributions of the sample mean are approximately normal. Thus we can use $t$-procedures, although the population distribution is very skewed.
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