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The Amount of Material Used in Making a Custom Sail

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The amount of material used in making a custom sail for a sailboat is normally distributed.For a random sample of 15 sails,you find that the mean amount of material is 912 square feet,with a standard deviation of 64 square feet.Develop a 99% confidence interval for the population mean amount of material used in a custom sail.


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The variable in an experiment that is expected to change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.

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