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Construct the Indicated Confidence Interval for the Difference Between the Two

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Construct the indicated confidence interval for the difference between the two population means. Assume that the two samples are independent and that they have been randomly selected.
-Two types of flares are tested for their burning times (in minutes) and sample results are given below.  Brand X Brand Yn=35nn=40xˉ=19.4xˉ=15.1 s=1.4 s=0.8\begin{array} { l l l } \text { Brand } X & & \text { Brand } Y \\\hline n =35& & \frac { n } { n } = 40 \\\bar { x } = 19.4 & & \bar { x } = 15.1 \\\mathrm {~s} = 1.4 & & \mathrm {~s} = 0.8\end{array}
Construct a 95%95 \% confidence interval for the differences μXμY\mu _ { X } - \mu _ { Y } based on the sample data.


A) 3.6<μXμY<5.03.6 < \mu _ { X } - \mu _ { Y } < 5.0
B) 3.8<μXμY<4.83.8 < \mu _ { X } - \mu Y < 4.8
C) 3.5<μXμY<5.13.5 < \mu X - \mu Y < 5.1
D) 3.2<μXμY<5.43.2 < \mu X - \mu Y < 5.4

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