It is known that the standard deviation of the amount of time it takes a person to shower is 8.3 minutes. If you are going to compute a 98% confidence interval for the mean amount of time it takes a person to shower with a margin of error of at most 1.5 minutes, what should your sample size be

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Section13.2: Expected Value And Variance Of Continuous Random Variables
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It is known that the standard deviation of the amount of time it takes a person to shower is 8.3
minutes. If you are going to compute a 98% confidence interval for the mean amount of time it takes a
person to shower with a margin of error of at most 1.5 minutes, what should your sample size be?

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