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The Department of Education Wishes to Estimate Average SAT Score

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The Department of Education wishes to estimate average SAT score among U.S.high school students.How many students would they have to sample,given that the test has a known population standard deviation of 100,in order to ensure that the margin of error was no more than 20 for a 99% confidence interval?


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