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The manufacturers of Good-O use two different types of machines to fill their 25 kg packs of dried dog food. On the basis of random samples of size 15 and 18 from output from machines 1 and 2 respectively, the mean and standard deviation of the weight of the packs of dog food produced were found to be 28.99 kg and 0.142 kg for machine 1 and 26.376 kg and 0.383 kg for machine 2. Hence, under the usual assumptions, determine a 95% confidence interval for the difference between the average weight of the output of machine 1 and machine 2. Use machine 1 minus machine 2, stating the upper limit of the interval correct to three decimal places.