Provide an Appropriate Response $62.5$ Inches and a Standard Deviation Of $3.7$

question 36

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-Assume that the heights of female executives are normally distributed. A random sample of 20 female executives have a mean height of $62.5$ inches and a standard deviation of $3.7$ inches. Construct a $98 \%$ confidence interval for the population variance, $\sigma ^ { 2 }$ .

• A) \(( 7.2,34.1 )\)
• B) \(( 2.7,5.8 )\)
• C) \(( 1.9,9.2 )\)
• D) \(( 7.6,35.9 )\)

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