Use the two-standard-deviations F-interval procedure to find the required confidence interval. Assume that independent samples have been randomly selected from the two populations and that the variable under consideration is normally distributed on both populations.
A researcher is interested in comparing the amount of variation in women's scores on a certain test and the amount of variation in men's scores on the same test. Independent random samples of 11 men and 13 women yielded the following scores.
Men:
72, 60, 52, 87, 66, 74, 95, 50, 81, 70, 72
Women:
70, 78, 62, 96, 75, 68, 41, 74, 80, 47, 73, 94, 65
Construct a 95% confidence interval for the ratio,

where σ
1 is the population standard deviation of the scores for men and σ
2 is the population standard deviation of the scores for women.
(Note:

and

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◦ 0.48 to 1.62
◦ 0.48 to 1.68
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◦ 0.26 to 3.20