Confidence interval for the true mean or proportion

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The mean number of sick days an employee takes per year is believed to be about ten. Members of a personnel department do not believe this figure. They randomly survey eight employees. The number of sick days they took for the past year are as follows: 12; 4; 15; 3; 11; 8; 6; 8. Let x = the number of sick days they took for the past year.

Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true mean or proportion. Round to the nearest hundredth (2 decimal places).

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