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A food safety guideline is that the mercury in fish should be below 1 part per million (ppm). Listed below are the amounts of mercury (ppm) found in tuna sushi samples at different stores in a major city. Construct a 98% confidence interval estimate of the mean amount of mercury in the population. 0.52 0.79 0.10 0.87 1.32 0.50 0.90 What is the confidence interval estimate of the population mean u?

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From the question,

n=7

c=98% =0.98

First we calculate the mean


\operatorname{mean}(\bar{x})=(0.52+0.79+0.10+0.87+1.32+0.50+0.90)/(7)
=(5)/(7)
\approx0.7143

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