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7.3 Determining the Sample Size
A stockbroker on Wall Street wants to estimate the average daily-high price for JAVA Sun Microsystems stock. What sample size is necessary to form a 99% confidence interval to estimate the mean daily-high within 0.25 dollars? Assume the population standard deviation is known to be 4.944 dollars.
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