Ellen Sarne has collected the following data on the amount of time (in minutes) taken by


Question: Question 2: Ellen Sarne has collected the following data on the amount of time (in minutes) taken by a tax preparation service to complete client interviews:

Client Number Time to Complete Interview (minutes)
1 8.0
2 12.0
3 26.0
4 10.0
5 23.0
6 21.0
7 16.0
8 22.0
9 18.0
10 17.0
11 36.0
12 9.0

You may assume that this data are a representative sample of all client interview times.

a) [10 points] Compute the sample mean and the sample standard deviation of this sample.

b) [10 points] Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population mean interview time.

c) [10 points] Approximately how large a sample size is required to obtain a 99% confidence interval whose accuracy is +/- 8.0 minutes?

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