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The daily sales of Hi-White toothpaste are believed to be right-skewed. For a random sample of 36 days, the standard deviation sales turned out to be 15.00 tubes.
Find the crtical value that corresponds to the confidence interval if the margin of error is 5.49. Round your answer to three decimal places.
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