Choose the One Alternative That Best Completes the Statement or Answers

question 66

Multiple Choice

Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
-A random sample of 150 towns in a western state had an average annual precipitation of $2.86$ inches and a population standard deviation of $0.78$ inches. Compute the $98 \%$ confidence interval for $\mu$ .

• A) \(( 2.71,3.01 )\)
• B) \(( 2.51,3.53 )\)
• C) \(( 2.43,3.79 )\)
• D) \(( 2.31,3.88 )\)

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