Astudy is going to be conducted in which a mean of a lifetime of batteries produced by a certain method will be estimated using a 90% confidence interval. the estimate needs to be within +/- 2 hours of the actual population mean. the population standard deviation s is estimated to be around 25. the necessary sample size should be at least

The necessary sample size should be at least 423.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have that to find our level, that is the subtraction of 1 by the confidence interval divided by 2. So:

Now, we have to find z in the Ztable as such z has a pvalue of .

So it is z with a pvalue of , so

Now, find the margin of error M as such

In which is the standard deviation of the population and n is the length of the sample.

In this problem, we have that:

. So

The necessary sample size should be at least 423.

the red lines denote the population of the bacteria after 35 hours. that would be 2,409.24. the y-intercept is the blue line which is 800 because that is the starting point. the equation used to make the graph is 800(1.032)^h, where h is the number of hours.

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