Thunderstorm Speeds A meteorologist who sampled
13 thunderstorms found that the average speed at which
they traveled across a certain state was 15 miles per hour. The standard deviation of the sample was 1.7 miles per hour. Find the 99% confidence interval of the mean. If a meteorologist wanted to use the highest speed to predict the times it would take storms to travel across the state in order to issue warnings, what figure would she likely use?