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7.4 Exercise 6

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An experimental garden has 500 sunflowers plants. The plants are being treated so they grow to unusual heights. The average height is 9.3 feet with a standard deviation of 0.5 foot. If sample sizes of 60 plants are taken, what is the probability the plants in a given sample will have an average height within 0.1 foot of the true mean of the population?

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