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By measuring the amount of time it takes a component of a product to move from one workstation to the next, an engineer has estimated that the standard deviation is 2.6 seconds.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "(A) How many measurements should be made in order to be 95% certain that the maximum error of estimation will not exceed 0.5 seconds?
\n" ); document.write( "n = [1.96*2.6/0.5]^2 = 103.87..
\n" ); document.write( "Rounding up you get n = 104
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\n" ); document.write( "n = [1.96*2.6/1]^2 = 25.96
\n" ); document.write( "Rounding up you get n = 26
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