How large a sample must we take in order to be confident

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if standard deviation of the lifetimes of television tubes is estimated as 100 hours,how large a sample must we take in order to be a) 95% b) 90% c) 99 d) 99.73% confident that the error in the estimated mean lifetime will not exceed 20 hours.

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