SHS Principal wishes to estimate the average number of hours that Grade 11 students study each week. The standard deviation from a previous study is 2.6 hours. How large a sample must be selected if he wants to be 99% confident of finding whether the true mean differs from the sample mean by 0.5 hour?   A. 45 B. 90 C. 180 D. 360 students

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SHS Principal wishes to estimate the average number of hours that Grade 11 students study each week. The standard deviation from a previous study is 2.6 hours. How large a sample must be selected if he wants to be 99% confident of finding whether the true mean differs from the sample mean by 0.5 hour?  

A. 45

B. 90

C. 180

D. 360 students

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