A local power utility claims that the mean annual household electric bill for its subscribers is only $600. A consumer watchdog group wants to dispute this claim. Everyone agrees that the standard deviation σ of annual household electric bills is $150   Find the minimum sample size needed to estimate the true mean to within a $10 margin of error, with 95% confidence.

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Estimation

A new framework of data analysis where the new statistical methods are used for interpreting the results and analyzing the data is known as estimation in statistics.