Confidence interval estimation-mean number of eggs laid

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The owner of Britten's Egg Farm wants to estimate the mean number of eggs laid per chicken. A sample of 20 chickens shows they laid an average of 20 eggs per month with a standard deviation of 2 eggs per month.

a. What is the value of the population mean? What is the best estimate of this value?

b. Explain why we need to use the t distribution. What assumption do you need to make?

c. For a 95 percent confidence interval, what is the value of t?

d. Develop the 95 percent confidence interval for the population mean.

e. Would it be reasonable to conclude that the population mean is 21 eggs? What about 25 eggs?

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