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If a light bulb manufacturing company wants to estimate, with
90%
confidence, the mean life of compact fluorescent light bulbs to within
±150
hours and also assumes that the population standard deviation is
900
hours, how many compact fluorescent light bulbs need to be selected?Question content area bottom
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