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The quantity of soda consumed per week at a soda fountain is 34 liters, with a standard deviation of 5.8 liters. If any 80 weeks were sampled randomly, what would be the margin of error of the sample mean?

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5.8/ sqrt 80=0.648 I think you are asking for the standard margin
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User Petar Vasilev
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Answer:

The margin of error of the sample mean is 0.648.

Explanation:

The standard error(margin of error) of a sample mean is given by the following formula:


SE = (s)/(√(n))

In which s is the standard deviation of the sample and n is the size of the sample.

In this problem, we have that:


s = 5.8, n = 80

So


SE = (5.8)/(√(80)) = 0.648

The margin of error of the sample mean is 0.648.

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