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A biologist measures the length of 40 fish of a certain species. The sample mean is \(25.4\) cm and the sample standard deviation is \(s_n = 3.2\) cm.
  1. Why can we use the normal approximation for the confidence interval even though the population standard deviation is unknown?
  2. Calculate the \(95\pourcent\) confidence interval for the mean length.

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