Q3ii In measuring ignition duration, an engineer estimates that the standard deviation is 0.05  seconds. How large a sample of measurements must he take in order to be 95% confident  that the error in his estimate of mean ignition duration will not exceed 0.01 seconds?

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In measuring ignition duration, an engineer estimates that the standard deviation is 0.05 
seconds. How large a sample of measurements must he take in order to be 95% confident 
that the error in his estimate of mean ignition duration will not exceed 0.01 seconds?

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