The population standard deviation for the lengths, in seconds, of the songs in an online database is 15 seconds. If we want to be 90% confident that the sample mean is within 4 seconds of the true population mean, what is the minimum sample size that should be taken? z0.101.282z0.051.645z0.0251.960z0.012.326z0.0052.576 Use the table above for the z-score, and be sure to round up to the nextinteger

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The population standard deviation for the lengths, in seconds, of the songs in an online database is 15 seconds. If we want to be 90% confident that the sample mean is within 4 seconds of the true population mean, what is the minimum sample size that should be taken?

z0.101.282z0.051.645z0.0251.960z0.012.326z0.0052.576

Use the table above for the z-score, and be sure to round up to the nextinteger.

 

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