You are conducting a survey of the total credit hours students take each semester at a college. Historically the population standard deviation is known to be 4.7 semester hours. You have spoken with 53 students so far. How many more studennts should be included in the sample to be 99% sure the sample mean is within one semester hour of the population mean for all students at this college? ( Hint: the margin of error is the amount added or subtracted from the mean)

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You are conducting a survey of the total credit hours students take each semester at a college. Historically the population standard deviation is known to be 4.7 semester hours. You have spoken with 53 students so far. How many more studennts should be included in the sample to be 99% sure the sample mean is within one semester hour of the population mean for all students at this college? ( Hint: the margin of error is the amount added or subtracted from the mean)

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