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. A bottling company is supposed to fill bottles with an average weight of 16 ounces....

. A bottling company is supposed to fill bottles with an average weight of 16 ounces. The company randomly selects several bottles and weighs the liquid. The weights are given below.

Weights: 16.05    15.91     15.88     16.02     15.95     15.73     15.69     16.01

a) Determine a 98% confidence interval for the population mean.

b) Determine a 95% confidence interval for μ

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