A researcher is interested in the blood folate level of women who live in a population...
A researcher is interested in the blood folate level of women who live in a population with a high incidence of neural tube defects. He takes a random sample of size n of women aged 18-45 and measures their blood folate levels. He reports the mean and knows the population standard deviation (SD) and variance. He also states that he is 95% confident that the population mean of the blood folate level lies somewhere between 2.4 and 4.6 ng/ml. What was the sample mean observed by the researcher?
a. 1.5
b. 2.4
c. 4.6
d. 3.5
e. It is impossible to say from the information given
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