Cigarette Consumption. Use the following information for Exercises 65–67. Health officials are interested in estimating the population mean number of cigarettes smoked annually per capita in order to evaluate the efficacy of their antismoking campaign. A random sample of eight U.S. counties yielded the following numbers of cigarettes smoked per capita: 2206, 2391, 2540, 2116, 2010, 2791, 2392, 2692.

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Question 8.163

66. Compute and interpret the margin of error for a confidence interval with 90% confidence. What is the meaning of this number?