A Research Firm Has Been Contracted to Estimate the Mean

question 4

Short Answer

A research firm has been contracted to estimate the mean weekly family expenditure on clothes.He believes that the standard deviation of the weekly expenditure is $125.Determine with 99% confidence the number of families that must be sampled to estimate the mean weekly family expenditure on clothes to within $15.

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