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C. Fishkin, CPA, is attempting to determine whether the average height of a player on a ba...

C. Fishkin, CPA, is attempting to determine whether the average height of a player on a basketball team is more than 80 inches. Based on his sample of basketball players, he determined an estimate of 76 inches with an associated precision of 10 inches. The confidence in this estimate is 90 percent.

A. What is the precision interval associated with Fishkin’s sample?

B. Based on this sampling interval, what is Fishkin’s conclusion?

C. If Fishkin wanted a higher level of confidence in his sample estimate, would the precision be more or less than 10 inches?

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