List FOUR sources of random error in measuring the width of a 4-m table with a 1-m metal ruler.

The mean of eight replicate blood glucose determinations is 74.4 mg glucose/ 100 mL blood. The
sample standard deviation is 1.8 mg glucose/ 100 mL blood. Calculate the 95% confidence interval
for the mean glucose concentration.

A food chemist wishes to validate a new method that will be used to measure the vitamin C content
of food. A reference orange sample is obtained that has a known vitamin C of 0.0532 % (w/w).
Several replicate measurements of this sample by the new method give estimated vitamin C
contents of 0.0482 %, 0.0471 %, 0.0510 %, 0.0468 %, and 0.0495 %. Is the mean result of the new
method the same as the known content of the reference sample if these values are compared at the
90 % confidence level?