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The effectiveness of a blood-pressure drug is being investigated. An experimenter finds that, on average, the reduction in systolic blood pressure is 60.7 for a
(a) Estimate how much the drug will lower a typical patient's systolic blood pressure (using a 90% confidence level).
Enter your answer as a tri-linear inequality accurate to one decimal place (because the sample statistics are reported accurate to one decimal place).
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(b) Interpret the confidence interval specific to this problem.
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