A soccer ball manufacturer wants to estimate the mean circumference of soccer balls within 0.14 inch.
(a) Determine the minimum sample size required to construct a 99% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume the population standard deviation is 0.5 inch.
(b) The sample mean is 27.9 inches. With a sample size of 94, a 99% level of confidence, and a population standard deviation of 0.5 inch, does it seem possible that the population mean could be less than 28 inches? Explain.
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(a) The minimum sample size required to construct a 99% confidence interval is
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(Round up to the nearest whole number.)