How many professors anthropologist sample to get average

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The standard deviation of the population is 70 books per professor. An anthropologist wishes to find the 99% confidence interval for the mean number of books each professor has. How many professors must the anthropologist sample to obtain an average accurate to within 14 books per professor?

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