Many medical professionals believe that eating too much red meat increases the risk of heart disease and cancer (webmd website, march 12, 2014). suppose you would like to conduct a survey to determine the yearly consumption of beef by a typical american and want to use 3 pounds as the desired margin of error for a 99% confidence interval of the population mean amount of beef consumed annually. use 25 pounds as a planning value for the population standard deviation. how large a sample should be taken? group of answer choices

(co 3) the soup produced by a company has a salt level that is normally distributed with a mean of 5.4 grams and a standard deviation of 0.3 grams. the company takes readings of every 10th bar off the production line. the reading points are 5.8, 5.9, 4.9, 6.5, 5.0, 4.9, 6.2, 5.1, 5.7, 6.1. is the process in control or out of control and why? it is out of control as two of these data points are more than 2 standard deviations from the mean it is in control as the data points more than 2 standard deviations from the mean are far apart it is out of control as one of these data points is more than 3 standard deviations from the mean it is in control as the values jump above and below the mean