2. A university dean wishes to estimate the average number of hours his part-time instructors teach per week. The standard deviation from a previous study is 2.6 hours. How large a sample must be selected if he wants to be 99% confident of finding whether the true mean differs from the sample mean by 1 hour?

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2. A university dean wishes to estimate the average number of hours his part-time
instructors teach per week. The standard deviation from a previous study is 2.6
hours. How large a sample must be selected if he wants to be 99% confident of
finding whether the true mean differs from the sample mean by 1 hour?
Transcribed Image Text:2. A university dean wishes to estimate the average number of hours his part-time instructors teach per week. The standard deviation from a previous study is 2.6 hours. How large a sample must be selected if he wants to be 99% confident of finding whether the true mean differs from the sample mean by 1 hour?
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