A 99% confidence interval for the mean of a population is to be constructed and must be accurate to within 0.3 unit. A preliminary sample standard deviation is 1.2. The smallest sample size n that provides the desired accuracy is

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A 99% confidence interval for the mean of a population is to be constructed and must be accurate to within 0.3 unit. A preliminary sample standard deviation is 1.2. The smallest sample size n that provides the desired accuracy is
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