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Health insurers are beginning to offer telemedicine services online that replace the common office visit. Wellpoint provides a video service that allows subscribers to connect with a physician online and receive prescribed treatments. Wellpoint claims that users of its LiveHealth Online service saved a significant amount of money on a typical visit. The data shown below ($), for a sample of 20 online doctor visits, are consistent with the savings per visit reported by Wellpoint.
93 | 33 | 40 |
104 | 84 | 55 |
56 | 48 | 37 |
76 | 49 | 94 |
94 | 74 | 74 |
79 | 93 | 99 |
54 | 81 |
Assuming the population is roughly symmetric, construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean savings for a televisit to the doctor as opposed to an office visit (to 2 decimals).
95% confidence interval: $ to $ per visit