Constructing Confidence Intervals for mean weight
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Listed below are weights (in grams) from a sample of bats. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of their mean weight. Are the confidence interval limits very different from the limits of 1.56 and 1.87 that are found when assuming that σ is known to be 0.30g ?
1.7
1.6
1.5
2.0
2.3
1.6
1.6
1.8
1.5
1.7
2.2
1.4
1.6
1.6
1.6
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