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Suppose that a measurement has mean µ and variance σ^2 = 25. Let X be the...

Suppose that a measurement has mean µ and variance σ^2 = 25. Let X be the average of n such independent measurements. How large should n be so that P |X − µ| < 1 = 0.95?

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