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During a water shortage, a water company randomly sampled residential water meters in order to monitor daily water consumption. On a particular day, a sample of 25 meters showed a sample mean of 750 litres and a sample standard deviation of 150 litres. Provide a 90% confidence interval estimate of the mean water consumption for the population.


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