A marketing research company desires to know the mean consumption of meat per week among males over age 26. They believe that the meat consumption has a mean of 3.7 pounds, and want to construct a 80% confidence interval with a maximum error of 0.09 pounds. Assuming a standard deviation of 1.4 pounds, what is the minimum number of males over age 26 they must include in their sample

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