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Overproduction of uric acid in the body can be an indication of cell breakdown. This may be an advance indication of illness such as gout, leukemia, or lymphoma.† Over a period of months, an adult male patient has taken nine blood tests for uric acid. The mean concentration was x = 5.36 mg/dl. The distribution of uric acid in healthy adult males can be assumed to be normal, with σ = 1.85 mg/dl.
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Find a 95% confidence interval for the population mean concentration of uric acid in this patient's blood. What is the margin of error? (Round your answers to two decimal places.)
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What conditions are necessary for your calculations? (Select all that apply.)
n is largeuniform distribution of uric acidσ is knownσ is unknownnormal distribution of uric acid
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Find the sample size necessary for a 95% confidence level with maximal margin of error E = 1.00 for the mean concentration of uric acid in this patient's blood. (Round your answer up to the nearest whole number.)
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