Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 9 - Section 9.2 - Assess Your Understanding - Applying the Concepts - Page 449: 30a

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A large sample size is needed to construct a confidence interval for the mean time spent eating and drinking each day to make the distribution of the sample mean approximately normal (as skewness decreases with an increase in sample size).

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