Measurements Were Made of the Milk Fat Content (In Percent) $\begin{array}{llllll}\hline 27.5 & 19.3 & 32.0 & 23.5 & 24.6 & 16.9 \\\hline\end{array}$

question 69

Multiple Choice

Measurements were made of the milk fat content (in percent) in six brands of feta cheese variety of goat cheese) , with the following results. Assume that the population is normally distributed.
$\begin{array}{llllll}\hline 27.5 & 19.3 & 32.0 & 23.5 & 24.6 & 16.9 \\\hline\end{array}$

Construct a $90 \%$ confidence interval for the population standard deviation $\sigma$ .

• A) \(3.44 < \sigma < 9.56\)
• B) \(3.77 < \sigma < 10.47\)
• C) \(3.67 < \sigma < 11.42\)
• D) \(4.02 < \sigma < 9.63\)

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