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The number of staff personnel needed to handle patients at a medical center is determined by the mean time that patients must wait before being attended to by a physician. For a random sample of 100 previously recorded emergencies, the sample mean waiting time was 72 minutes, with a standard deviation of 28 minutes.

a. what is a 50 percent confidence interval for the actual mean waiting time?

b. what is a 99 percent confidence interval for the actual mean waiting time?

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a. What is a 50 percent confidence interval for the actual mean waiting time?

Sample mean=72 minutes
Sample standard deviation=s=28 minutes
Sample size=n= 100
Since sample size is greater than ...

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