As part of a survey a marketing representative asks a random
As part of a survey, a marketing representative asks a random sample of 28 business owners how much they would be willing to pay for a website for their company. She finds that the sample standard deviation is $3496. Assume the sample is taken from a normally distributed population. Construct 99% confidence intervals for
(a) the population variance sigma squared2
(b) the population standard deviation sigma .
Interpret the results.
(a) The confidence interval for the population variance is ( , ). (Round to the nearest integer as needed.)
Solution
where is the n value for the given data
