Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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Chapter 6 - Confidence Intervals - Section 6.1 Confidence Intervals for the Mean - Exercises - Page 306: 32

Answer

$n=19$

Work Step by Step

Since confidence level is 0.98 so we go to t- distribution table to find critical value ,when level of confidence is 0.99 critical value is2.575 so we have to look for the closest number to it in the t -dist. table so the answer is 2.552 when d.f is 18 so n is d.f+1 so N is 19
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