A bank wishes to estimate the mean credit card balance owed by its customers. The population standard deviation is estimated to be $300. If a 98% confidence interval is used and an margin of error of $91 is desired, how many customers should be sampled?   Multiple Choice   16   156   405   59

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A bank wishes to estimate the mean credit card balance owed by its customers. The population standard deviation is estimated to be $300. If a 98% confidence interval is used and an margin of error of $91 is desired, how many customers should be sampled?

 

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