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Health insurers and the federal government are both putting pressure on hospitals to shorten the average length of stay (LOS) of their patients. In 2003, the average LOS for non-heart patients was 4.6 days. A random sample of 20 hospitals in one state had a mean LOS for non-heart patients in 2008 of 3.8 days and a standard deviation of 1.2 days. How large a sample of hospitals would we need to be 99 percent confident that the sample mean is within 0.5 days of the population mean?
A. 3
B. 7
C. 32
D. 48
E. 96
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