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A doctor at a local hospital is interested in estimating the birth weight of infants. How large a sample must she select if she desires to be 98% confident that the true mean is within 2 ounces of the sample mean? The standard deviation of the birth weights is known to be 5 ounces.
A) 34
B) 5
C) 33
D) 6
13 years ago

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PsyDAG
You want mean ± 2.33 SEm for 98% confidence interval.

SEm = SD/√n

I'll leave the rest to you.
13 years ago
Anonymous
3.2
10 years ago

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