Confidence Interval for Population Mean: Weight of Trucks
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A highway inspector needs an estimate of the mean weight of trucks crossing a bridge on the Interstate highway system. She selects a random sample of 49 trucks and finds a mean of 15.8 tons. The population standard deviation is known to be 3.85 tons. What is the 90 percent confidence interval for the population mean?
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