People suffering from hypertension, heart disease, or kidney problems may need to limit their intakes of sodium. The public health departments in some U.S. states and Canadian provinces require community water systems to notify their customers if the sodium concentration in the drinking water exceeds a designated limit. In Massachusetts, for example, the notification level is 20 mg/L (milligrams per liter). Suppose that over the course of a particular year the concentration of sodium in the drinking water of a water system in Massachusetts is not extremely nonnormal, with a mean of 18 mg/L and a standard deviation of 6 mg/L. Imagine that the water department selects a simple random sample of 32 water specimens over the course of this year. Each specimen is sent to a lab for testing, and at the end of the year the water department computes the mean concentration across the 32 specimens. If the mean exceeds 20 mg/L, the water department notifies the public and recommends that people who are on sodium-restricted diets inform their physicians of the sodium content in their drinking water.
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