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Confidence Intervals · Challenge problem

Two teaching methods will be compared by giving each to its own random group of nn students (equal group sizes). Scores under both methods have known standard deviation σ=10\sigma = 10. What is the smallest nn for which the 95%95\% confidence interval for the difference of the two mean scores has margin of error at most 22? Use z∗=1.96z^* = 1.96.