An economist would like to estimate the mean amount of money that a family spends to within $36. If the amount spent by a family is considered to be normally distributed with a standard deviation of $200, what sample size would be necessary to be 91% confident? Draw the graph

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An economist would like to estimate the mean amount of money that a
family spends to within $36. If the amount spent by a family is
considered to be normally distributed with a standard deviation of $200,
what sample size would be necessary to be 91% confident? Draw the graph.

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