Standard dev. est. at 100 hrs: sample size for 99.73% conf.

Godisgood

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If the standard deviation of the lifetimes of television tubes is estimated as 100 hours how large a sample must be taken in order to be 99.73% confident that the error in the estimated mean lifetime will not exceed 20 hours?
 
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Godisgood said:
If the standard deviation of the lifetimes of television tubes is estimated as 100 hours how large a sample must be taken in order to be 99.73% confident that the error in the estimated mean lifetime will not exceed 20 hours?
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