Pegatron Corporation, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company, is concerned about the variability of the levels of impurity

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Pegatron Corporation, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company, is concerned about the variability of the levels of impurity contained in consignments of raw material from a supplier. A random sample of 25 consignments showed a standard deviation of 3.45 in the concentration of impurity levels. Assume normality.
a. Find a 95% confidence interval for the population variance.
b. Would a 99% confidence interval for this variance be wider or narrower than that found in part a?

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Statistics For Business And Economics

ISBN: 9781292315034

9th Global Edition

Authors: Paul Newbold, William Carlson, Betty Thorne

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