A quality control specialist at a cake bakery collected a sample of cupcakes with weights (in grams): 101, 122, 111, 99, 97, 89, 131, 95, 109 and 96. a. Assuming the cake weights are normally distributed with known population standard deviation of 15g. construct a 99% confidence interval for the true mean cake weight. b. How large should the sample size be for the 95 % confidence interval length to be raining more than 12g

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8. A quality control specialist at a cake bakery collected a sample of cupcakes with weights (in grams): 101, 122, 111, 99, 97, 89, 131, 95, 109 and 96. a. Assuming the cake weights are normally distributed with known population standard deviation of 15g. construct a 99% confidence interval for the true mean cake weight. b. How large should the sample size be for the 95 % confidence interval length to be raining more than 12g? 

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