Elsa is collecting information on the wingspan of two different species of butterfly, Ringlet and Meadow Brown. She takes a random sample of each type of butterfly. The wingspans, \(w \mathrm {~cm}\), are summarised in the table below. The wingspans of Ringlet and Meadow Brown butterflies each follow normal distributions.
Number of
butterflies
\(\sum w\)
\(\sum w ^ { 2 }\)
Ringlet
8
410
21032
Meadow Brown
6
294
14426
Test, at the \(2 \%\) level of significance, whether or not there is evidence that the variance of the wingspans of Ringlet butterflies is different from the variance of the wingspans of Meadow Brown butterflies. You should state your hypotheses clearly.
The \(k \%\) confidence interval for the variance of the wingspans of Meadow Brown butterflies is (1.194, 48.54)
Find the value of \(k\)
Calculate a \(95 \%\) confidence interval for the difference between the mean wingspan of the Ringlet butterfly and the mean wingspan of the Meadow Brown butterfly.