Thirty companies comprise the DJIA. Just how big are these companies? One common method for measuring the size of a company is to use its market capitalization, the product of multiplying the number of stock shares by the price of a share of stock. On April 24, 2019, the market capitalization of these companies ranged from Traveler's $36.2 billion to Apple's $868.9 billion. The entire population of market capitalization values is stored in Dow Market Cap.

a. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the market capitalization for this population of 30 companies.

b. Interpret the parameters calculated in (a) .