QUESTION 6 A research worker wants to determine the average time it takes a mechanic to rotate the tires of a car, and she wants to be able to assert with 95% confidence that the mean of her sample is off by at most 0.3 minutes. If she can presume from past experience that the actual time follows normal distribution with a standard deviation of 1.5 minutes, how large the sample will she have to take? O 96 O 97 68

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A research worker wants to determine the average time it takes a mechanic to rotate the tires of a car, and she wants to be
able to assert with 9596 confidence that the mean of her sample is off by at most 0.3 minutes. If she can presume from past
experience that the actual time follows normal distribution with a standard deviation of 1.5 minutes, how large the sample
will she have to take?
O 96
97
6.
68
Transcribed Image Text:QUESTION 6 A research worker wants to determine the average time it takes a mechanic to rotate the tires of a car, and she wants to be able to assert with 9596 confidence that the mean of her sample is off by at most 0.3 minutes. If she can presume from past experience that the actual time follows normal distribution with a standard deviation of 1.5 minutes, how large the sample will she have to take? O 96 97 6. 68
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