Computer Services, Inc

question 70

Short Answer

Computer Services, Inc. wants to determine a confidence interval for the average CPU time of their teleprocessing transactions. A sample of 64 transactions yielded a mean of 6 seconds with a standard deviation of 0.8 seconds. Determine a 98% confidence interval for the average CPU time.

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