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A researcher used a new drug to treat 100 subjects with high cholesterol. For the patients in the study, after two months of treatment the average decrease in cholesterol level was 80 milligrams per decilitre (mg/dl). Assume that the decrease in cholesterol after two months of taking the drug follows a Normal distribution, with unknown mean μ and standard deviation σ = 20 mg/dl. The researcher will construct a 90% confidence interval to estimate μ.
The margin of error associated with a 90% confidence interval for the researcher's 90% confidence interval for μ is