A company delivers packages and the delivery time (T) for a package follows an exponential distribution with a mean of 30 minutes. Suppose the company delivers n packages in a day. What is the minimum number of packages n required to ensure that the probability that the average delivery time(\bar{x} ) for the day lies between 28 and 32 minutes is at least 0.95? Use CLT to approximate.
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