Dylan Jones kept careful records of the fuel efficiency of his new car. After the first nine times he filled up the tank, he found the mean was 25.7 miles per gallon (mpg) with a sample standard deviation of 0.9 mpg. (a) Compute the 95 percent confidence interval for his mpg. (Round your answers to 3 decimal places.) (b) How many times should he fill his gas tank to obtain a margin of error below 0.1 mpg? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.   Below are the computations: Below is the computations: end points of the confidence interval are 20.452 and 22.148 mpg, found by 21.3±2.998(0.8/square root of 8) - This is what my teacher said can you help?

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Dylan Jones kept careful records of the fuel efficiency of his new car. After the first nine times he filled up the tank, he found the mean was 25.7 miles per gallon (mpg) with a sample standard deviation of 0.9 mpg.

(a) Compute the 95 percent confidence interval for his mpg. (Round your answers to 3 decimal places.)

(b) How many times should he fill his gas tank to obtain a margin of error below 0.1 mpg? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

 

Below are the computations:

Below is the computations:

end points of the confidence interval are 20.452 and 22.148 mpg, found by
21.3±2.998(0.8/square root of 8) - This is what my teacher said can you help?

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