The time it takes for a cheese-and-ham sandwich to be toasted in the Cass ground floor...
The time it takes for a cheese-and-ham sandwich to be toasted in
the Cass ground floor cafeteria appears to be normally distributed.
A random sample of the times for toasting 20 such sandwiches had a
sample mean of 162 seconds and a sample standard deviation of 33.6
seconds.
What is the value of the upper end-point of the 99% confidence
interval for the mean time to toast a cheese-and-ham sandwich?
Give your solution accurate to 4 decimal places.
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