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The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation is fastbecoming a requirement for serious investment professionals.Although it requires a successful completion of three levels ofgrueling exams, it also entails promising careers with lucrativesalaries. A student of finance is curious about the average salaryof CFA charterholders in Toronto. He takes a random sample of 56charterholders and computes a mean salary of $86,200 with astandard deviation of $5,050. Use this sample information to find a99% confidence interval for the average salary of CFAcharterholders in Toronto. Assume that the values are approximatelynormally distributed. Use t-distribution. Round to the nearestdollar.
(a) What is the best point estimate of the populationmean? dollars
For part (b) round your answer to 3 decimalplaces.
(b) What is the critical t-value that will need to be used tocalculate the confidence interval?
For parts (b),(c), round your answer to the nearestdollar.
(c) What is the error (d) What is the 99% confidence interval? <μ<
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