A business is concerned about the size of expenses claims being made by its staff. If the mean claim is over £240 they will need to take some action to stop staff spending so much. A random sample of 400 expenses claims had a mean value of £230 and a standard deviation of £42.
\nCalculate confidence intervals for the ‘true mean’ size of expenses claims
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