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1. Given the 95% confidence interval (75.23 +/- 3.16) for a population mean, rewrite in the following alternative format with left and right endponts:
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2. Would a given mean value of 79.56 be likely, given the calculated confidence interval?

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1. For this first part, we simply take the mean 75.23 and subtract 3.16 ...

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