The owner of Brittens Egg Farm wants to estimate the mean nu

The owner of Britten’s Egg Farm wants to estimate the mean number of eggs produced per chicken. A sample of 17 chickens shows they produced an average of 18 eggs per month with a standard deviation of 7 eggs per month. (Use Student\'s t Distribution Table.)

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a-1. What is the value of the population mean?

a-2. What is the best estimate of this value?

c. For a 99% confidence interval, what is the value of t? (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)

d. Develop the 99% confidence interval for the population mean. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

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