A quality control specialist for a restaurant chain takes a random sample of size 13 to check the amount of soda served in the 16 oz serving size. The sample mean is 13.20 with a sample standard deviation of 1.53. Assume the underlying population is normally distributed. We wish to construct a 95% confidence interval for the true population mean for the amount of soda served. What is the error bound?

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A quality control specialist for a restaurant chain takes a random sample of size 13 to check the amount of soda served in the 16 oz serving size. The sample mean is 13.20 with a sample standard deviation of 1.53. Assume the underlying population is normally distributed. We wish to construct a 95% confidence interval for the true population mean for the amount of soda served. What is the error bound?

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