The number of television sets coming off a production line each day is known to have a standard deviation of 120 sets per day.  The production manager tells you that the 95% confidence interval for the population mean was 442.7to 747.3 . How large of a sample was this confidence interval based on?

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The number of television sets coming off a production line each day is known to have a standard deviation of 120 sets per day.  The production manager tells you that the 95% confidence interval for the population mean was 442.7to 747.3 . How large of a sample was this confidence interval based on?

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