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Suppose we were to gather a random sample of 27 observations from a population and wished...

Suppose we were to gather a random sample of 27 observations from a population and wished to calculate a 90% confidence interval for the mean, µ, in the case where the population standard deviation, σ, is unknown. Enter the value from the Student's t distribution that we would use, to three decimal places.

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