A Student Wanted to Construct a 95% Confidence Interval for the Mean

question 100

Multiple Choice

A student wanted to construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean age of students in her statistics class. She randomly selected nine students. Their mean age was 19.1 years with a sample standard deviation of 1.5 years. What is the 99% confidence interval for the population mean?

• A)[17.42, 20.78]
• B)[17.48, 20.72]
• C)[14.23, 23.98]
• D)[0.44, 3.80]

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