Provide an Appropriate Response $67.5$ Inches and a Standard Deviation Of $2.9$

question 37

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-Assume that the heights of bookcases are normally distributed. A random sample of 16 bookcases in one company have a mean height of $67.5$ inches and a standard deviation of $2.9$ inches. Construct a $99 \%$ confidence interval for the population standard deviation, $\sigma$ .

• A) \(( 2.0,5.2 )\)
• B) \(( 2.0,5.4 )\)
• C) \(( 1.2,3.1 )\)
• D) \(( 2.0,4.9 )\)

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