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Find the 95% confidence interval for the variance of the weights of containers of motor oil if a sample of 14 containers has a variance of 3.2. Assume the variable is normally distributed.

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n = 14    with  s^2 =   3.2

with level of test = 5%     the Confidence Interval formula is  CI =  (  [ (n-1)*S^2]/ [CHI-SQR-Upper] ,  [(n-1)*S^2]/[CHI-SQR-Lower] )

I assume this is a TWO-TAILED TEST.

so  CHI-SQR distribution has n-1 =  13 degrees of freedom


at the 5% level we should have:     Upper chi-squared value is:  24.7356  with upper tail containing 2.5%

The Lower chi-squared value is 5.00874  at the lower end holding 97.5% of distribution.


CI =  (  [13*3.2] / [24.7356] ,   [13*3.2] / [5.00874] ) = (1.681787,  8.305482)

We can approximate the 95% Confidence interval to  (1.68,   8.31)  to the nearest hundredth, for the variance of weights.

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