# Overproduction of uric acid in the body can be an indication of cell breakdown. This may be an advance indication of illness such as gout, leukemia

Overproduction of uric acid in the body can be an indication of cell breakdown. This may be an advance indication of illness such as gout, leukemia, or lymphoma. Over a period of months, an adult male patient has taken eight blood tests for uric acid. The mean concentration was x¯=5.35mg/dl. The distribution of uric acid in healthy adult males can be assumed to be normal with σ=1.85mg/dlσ=1.85mg/dl. What conditions are necessary for your calculations?

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Necessary assumptions for the confidence interval of the mean: The population distribution of x is approximately normal (becatise the sample size of 8 is small and thus the central limit theorem camnot: be applied).
Population standard deviation o is known