Assume you work for a corporation that makes facial tissues. The job you are presently working on requires you to decide how many tissues are to be put in the new automobile glove compartment boxes. Complete the following.

1. How will you decide on a reasonable number of tissues to put in the boxes?

2. When do people usually need tissues?

3. What type of data collection technique would you use?

4. Assume you found out that from your sample of 85 people, an average of about 57 tissues are used throughout the duration of a cold, with a population standard deviation of 15. Use a confidence interval to help you decide how many tissues will go in the boxes.

5. Explain how you decided how many tissues will go in the boxes.