The amount of time customers at the “Speedy” tyre store spend waiting for their car tyres to be checked has a (unknown) mean $\mu$ \mu and standard deviation $\sigma$ \sigma = 4 minutes. It is company policy that the customer wait time should be 20 minutes (or less). The manager of the store selects a random sample of 150 customer wait times and observes a mean wait time of 21 minutes.
A 99% confidence interval for the population mean wait time based on this sample was calculated to be (20.16, 21.84) minutes.
Which of the following statements is true?

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The amount of time customers at the “Speedy” tyre store spend waiting for their car tyres to be checked has a (unknown) mean $\mu$ \mu and standard deviation $\sigma$ \sigma = 4 minutes. It is company policy that the customer wait time should be 20 minutes (or less). The manager of the store selects a random sample of 150 customer wait times and observes a mean wait time of 21 minutes.

A 99% confidence interval for the population mean wait time based on this sample was calculated to be (20.16, 21.84) minutes.

Which of the following statements is true?

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The 99% confidence interval obtained from this sample is unreliable because the population distribution is not Normal.

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The 99% confidence interval obtained from this sample is untrustworthy because the sample is biased.

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We can conclude with 99% confidence that the mean waiting time for all customers of the “speedy” tyre store is estimated to be between 20.16 minutes and 21.84 minutes.

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The company is underperforming in their customer services because they failed to meet their company policy of no more than 20 minutes waiting time.

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