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Confidence Intervals: Confidence Interval, Single Population Mean, Population Standard Deviation Known, Normal:  Update glossary items. 

Confidence Intervals: Confidence Interval, Single Population Mean, Population Standard Deviation Known, Normal: At the end of the modules, added a section on "Calculating the Sample Size n."

Confidence Intervals: Confidence Interval, Single Population Mean, Population Standard Deviation Known, Normal:  Changed Example 3 Problem 2 answer c to: z(alpha/2) changes from 1.645 to 1.96."

 Confidence Intervals: Confidence Interval, Single Population Mean, Population Standard Deviation Known, Normal: Changed part Example 3 Problem 2 part c to read "We increase the confidence level from 0.90 to 0.95."

Confidence Intervals: Confidence Interval, Single Population Mean, Population Standard Deviation Known, Normal:  After the sentence "Leave everything the same except the sample size," added the sentence "For this problem, we can examine the impact
of changing n to 100 or changing n to 25."

Confidence Intervals: Confidence Interval, Single Population Mean, Population Standard Deviation Known, Normal: Defined alpha.  To the glossary. added "(CL)" to "Confidence Level."

roles updated

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