To estimate the mean number of days that an employees was absent from work last year, Hamilton Manufacturing took a random sample of 600 of its employees. the mean of the sample was 16.3. it is known that the population standard deviation is 5.1. the 95% confidence interval was therefore approxiamately  16.3 ± m. What is the width of the confidence interval?

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To estimate the mean number of days that an employees was absent from work last year, Hamilton Manufacturing took a random sample of 600 of its employees. the mean of the sample was 16.3. it is known that the population standard deviation is 5.1. the 95% confidence interval was therefore approxiamately  16.3 ± m. What is the width of the confidence interval?

 

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