Confidence interval of the true mean

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The winning team's score in 13 high school basketball games was recorded. If the sample mean is 54.3 points and the sample standard deviation is 11.0 points, find the 98% confidence interval of the true mean.

a) 51.2<u<57.4

b) 46.1<u<62.5

c) 47.2<u<61.4

d) 37.9<u<70.7

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