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OpenStax, Statistics §8.2 A Single Population Mean Using the Student's t-Distribution · Exercise 37 · Statistics · Confidence intervals

A Single Population Mean Using the Student's t-Distribution · Exercise 37

A quality control specialist for a restaurant chain takes a random sample of size 12 to check the amount of soda served in the 16-oz serving size. The sample mean is 13.30, with a sample standard deviation of 1.55. Assume the underlying population is normally distributed.

Which of the following is the error bound?

(a) 0.87
(b) 1.98
(c) 0.99
(d) 1.74

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