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A sociologist is constructing a confidence interval for the average number of hours worked per week using a sample of $70$ individuals from a population with a left-skewed distribution. The population standard deviation is not provided. Which distribution should be used?

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Student t distribution

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Chi-square distribution

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Normal distribution

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Poisson distribution

A sociologist is constructing a confidence interval for the average number of hours worked per week using a sample of 7070 individuals from a population with a left-skewed distribution. The population standard deviation is not provided. Which distribution should be used?

A sociologist is constructing a confidence interval for the average number of hours worked per week using a sample of $70$ individuals from a population with a left-skewed distribution. The population standard deviation is not provided. Which distribution should be used?