Confidence intervals for weight of dog food

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A sample of 400 bags of dog food which are advertised to contain twenty-five pounds had a mean content weight of 24.5 pounds with a standard deviation of 3 pounds. Find a 95% confidence interval for the population mean content weight of the bags of dog food.

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