A Grocery Store Manager Is Interested in Estimating the Mean

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A grocery store manager is interested in estimating the mean weight of apples received in a shipment. If she wishes to have the estimate be within ±.05 pound with 90 percent confidence, the sample size should be 103 apples if she believes that the standard deviation is .08 pound.

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