A fast food restaurant executive wishes to know how many fast food meals teenagers eat each week. They want to construct a 80 % confidence interval for the mean and are assuming that the population standard deviation for the number of fast food meals consumed each week is 1.4. The study found that for a sample of 566 teenagers the mean number of fast food meals consumed per week is 5.8. Construct the desired confidence interval. Round your answers to one decimal place.

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A fast food restaurant executive wishes to know how many fast food meals
teenagers eat each week. They want to construct a 80 % confidence interval for
the mean and are assuming that the population standard deviation for the number
of fast food meals consumed each week is 1.4. The study found that for a sample
of 566 teenagers the mean number of fast food meals consumed per week is 5.8.
Construct the desired confidence interval. Round your answers to one decimal
place.
Transcribed Image Text:A fast food restaurant executive wishes to know how many fast food meals teenagers eat each week. They want to construct a 80 % confidence interval for the mean and are assuming that the population standard deviation for the number of fast food meals consumed each week is 1.4. The study found that for a sample of 566 teenagers the mean number of fast food meals consumed per week is 5.8. Construct the desired confidence interval. Round your answers to one decimal place.
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Sample size n =566

Sample mean =5.8

Population standard deviation =1.4

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