What is the degrees of freedom in this problem? Use table or Technology to find t-critical value with degrees of freedom found above and with α=0.05  significance level. Find the Margin of error (E)

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A company has a new process for manufacturing large artificial sapphires. In a trial run, 37 sapphires are randomly selected. The mean weight for these  gems is  x¯=6.75 carats, and the sample standard deviation is   s=0.33 carat. Let μ be the mean weight for the distribution of all sapphires produced by the new process. 

  • What is the degrees of freedom in this problem?
  • Use table or Technology to find t-critical value with degrees of freedom found above and with α=0.05  significance level.
  • Find the Margin of error (E)
  • Find a 95% confidence interval for μ
  • Interpret the confidence interval in the context of the problem.
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