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The coffee/soup machine at the local bus station is supposed to fill cups with 6 ounces of soup.

Ten cups of soup are brought with results of a mean of 5.93 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.13 ounces.

How large a sample of soups would we need to be 95% confident that a sample mean is within 0.03 ounces of the population mean?

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The coffee/soup machine at the local bus station is supposed to fill cups with 6 ounces of soup.

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