A potato chip company wants to evaluate the accuracy of its potato chip bag-filling machine. Bags are labeled as containing 8 ounces of potato chips. A simple random sample of 12 bags had mean weight 7.81 ounces with a sample standard deviation of 0.013 ounce. Assume the weights are approximately normally distributed. Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean weight of bags of potato chips. Round the answers to at least two decimal places. The 90% confidence interval is 00. G

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A potato chip company wants to evaluate the accuracy of its potato chip bag-filling machine. Bags are labeled as containing 8 ounces of potato chips.
A simple random sample of 12 bags had mean weight 7.81 ounces with a sample standard deviation of 0.013 ounce. Assume the weights are
approximately normally distributed.
Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean weight of bags of potato chips. Round the answers to at least two decimal places.
The 90% confidence interval is .
X
5.
Transcribed Image Text:A potato chip company wants to evaluate the accuracy of its potato chip bag-filling machine. Bags are labeled as containing 8 ounces of potato chips. A simple random sample of 12 bags had mean weight 7.81 ounces with a sample standard deviation of 0.013 ounce. Assume the weights are approximately normally distributed. Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean weight of bags of potato chips. Round the answers to at least two decimal places. The 90% confidence interval is . X 5.
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