The lifespan of rats raised in a laboratory is approximately normally distributed with a standard
deviation of 5.9 months. A sample of 31 rats reared to adulthood in a laboratory have a mean life span
of 27.3 months.
a) Find a 95 % confidence interval for the population mean of all rats raised in a laboratory.
b) What can we assert with 95% confidence about the possible size of our error if we estimate the
mean lifespan of all laboratory rats to be 27.3 months?
c) How large a sample is needed if we wish to be 95% confident that our sample mean will be within
3.5 months of the true mean?
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