Suppose That Your Task Is to Estimate the Mean of a Normally

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Suppose that your task is to estimate the mean of a normally distributed population to within 10 units with 95% confidence and that the population standard deviation is known to be 70.
What sample size should be used if you wish to estimate the population mean to within 5 units?

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