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As part of a water quality survey,. you test the water hardness in several randomly selected streams. The results are shown below. Construct a confidence inte
and the population standard deviation o. Use a 95% level of confidence. Assume that the population has a normal distribution.
n=24
s= 15 grains per gallon
....D
What is the confidence interval for the population variance o ?
| | D (Round to one decimal place as needed.)
Interpret the results. Select the correct choice below and fill in the answer box(es) to complete your choice.
(Round to one decimal places as needed.)
O A. With 5% confidence, it can be said that the population variance is
O B. With 95% confidence, it can be said that the population variance is less
between
than
pue
OC. With 95% confidence, it can be said that the population variance is
O D. With 5% confidence, it can be said that the population variance is
between
greater than
pue
What is the confidence interval for the population standard deviation o?
CHD (Round to one decimal place as needed.
Interpret the results. Select the correct choice below and fill in the answer box(es) to complete your choice.
(Round to one decimal places as needed.)
OA. With 95% confidence, you can say that the population standard
O B. With 95% confidence, you can say that the population standard
deviation is between
pue
grains per gallon.
deviation is less than
grains per gallon.
OC. With 5% confidence, you can say that the population standard deviation O D. With 5% confidence, you can say that the population standard deviation
is between
and
grains per gallon.
is greater than
grains per gallon.
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