A Random Sample of Size 20 Taken from a Normally

question 6

Multiple Choice

A random sample of size 20 taken from a normally distributed population resulted in a sample variance of 32. The lower limit of a 90% confidence interval for the population variance would be:

• A) 52.185
• B) 20.375
• C) 20.170
• D) 54.931
• E) 29.655

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