Recently I abandoned my AT&T unlimited data plan because it was costing way too much for what I felt like I was using. I switched to a plan that gives me 3GB of data per month and I figure that if I keep my average daily data usage under 100MB, then I will be fine. To estimate my daily usage I randomly select 28 days and find that, on those days, I have an average data usage of 89.8 MB with a standard deviation o

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Recently I abandoned my AT&T unlimited data plan because it was costing way too much for what I felt like I was using. I switched to a plan that gives me 3GB of data per month and I figure that if I keep my average daily data usage under 100MB, then I will be fine. To estimate my daily usage I randomly select 28 days and find that, on those days, I have an average data usage of 89.8 MB with a standard deviation of 63.9MB.

Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a MB

1)Use the information provided to construct a 90% confidence interval estimate of my overall average daily data use. 

must use the confidence interval estimate

a) the margin of error, b) the critical number used, and c) the parameter being estimated (p or μ). 

2) Does the evidence seem to support my hope that I am keeping my average daily data usage under 100MB. 

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