mean of the numbers of chocolate chips in a sample of 40 Chips Ahoy regular cookies is 23.95 and the standard deviation is 2.55.  If you need to construct a 99% confidence interval estimate of the mean number of chocolate chips in all such cookies, what is the best point estimate for this problem?

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The mean of the numbers of chocolate chips in a sample of 40 Chips Ahoy regular cookies is 23.95 and the standard deviation is 2.55.  If you need to

construct a 99% confidence interval estimate of the mean number of chocolate chips in all such cookies, what is the best point estimate for this problem?

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