The body temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit of a sample of adults in one small town are: 97.9 99.2 97.4 99.3 98.4 97.3 99.5 98.9 97 98 96.8 96.4 Assume body temperatures of adults are normally distributed. Based on this data, find the 80% confidence interval of the mean body temperature of adults in the town. Enter your answer as an open-interval (i.e., parentheses) accurate to 3 decimal places. Assume the data is from a normally distributed population. 80% C.I. =

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The body temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit of a sample of adults in one small town are:

97.9 99.2 97.4 99.3 98.4 97.3 99.5 98.9 97 98 96.8 96.4


Assume body temperatures of adults are normally distributed. Based on this data, find the 80% confidence interval of the mean body temperature of adults in the town. Enter your answer as an open-interval (i.e., parentheses) accurate to 3 decimal places. Assume the data is from a normally distributed population.

80% C.I. =  

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