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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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Author:Amos Gilat

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Transcribed Image Text:Tp help consumers assess the risks they are taking, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes the amount of nicotine found in all commercial brands of cigarettes. A new cigarette has recently been marketed. The FDA tests on this cigarette gave a mean nicotine content of 28.7 milligrams and standard deviation of 2.4 milligrams for a sample of n = 16 cigarettes. a. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the mean nicotine content of this brand of cigarette. b. What assumptions are necessary for a reliable confidence interval to be constructed? c. What would you do, if you want a more precise interval than the one found in part a?

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