upermarket manager wishes to make an estimate of the average time in minutes a customer spends at the checkout counter. It is known from previous studies that the variance is 9.8. How large a sample is required if she wants a 95% confidence interval for the population mean that extends no further than 0.9 minutes from the sample mean. Round up your answer to a whole numbe

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A supermarket manager wishes to make an estimate of the average time in minutes a customer spends at the checkout counter. It is known from previous studies that the variance is 9.8. How large a sample is required if she wants a 95% confidence interval for the population mean that extends no further than 0.9 minutes from the sample mean. Round up your answer to a whole number

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