researcher was interested in the mean corn yeild for farmers in Illinois. She took an SRS of 28 farmers from Illinois and survey their corn yeild. The sample mean was 136.25 bushels per acre and the standard deviation was 13.25 bushels per acre assuming the conditions are met how many farmers in Illinois should be sampled in order to get a 95% confidence interval with a margin of error of 3.5?

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Section13.2: Expected Value And Variance Of Continuous Random Variables
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A researcher was interested in the mean corn yeild for farmers in Illinois. She took an SRS of 28 farmers from Illinois and survey their corn yeild. The sample mean was 136.25 bushels per acre and the standard deviation was 13.25 bushels per acre assuming the conditions are met how many farmers in Illinois should be sampled in order to get a 95% confidence interval with a margin of error of 3.5?
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