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The lifetime of a certain brand of electric light bulb is known to have a standard deviation of 49 hours. Suppose that a random sample of 50 bulbs of this brand has a mean lifetime of 491 hours. Find a 95% confidence interval for the true mean lifetime of all light bulbs of this brand. Then complete the table below.

Carry your intermediate computations to at least three decimal places. Round your answers to one decimal place.

What is the lower limit of the 95% confidence level?
What is the upper limit of the 95% confidence level?

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The lifetime of a certain brand of electric light bulb is known to have a standard deviation of 49 hours. Suppose that a random sample of 50 bulbs of this brand has a mean lifetime of 491 hours. Find a 95% confidence interval for the true mean lifetime of all light bulbs of this brand. Then complete the table below.

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