22. The first few weeks of 2004 were good for the stock market. A sample of 25 large openend funds showed the following year-to-date returns through January 16, 2004 (Barron’s, January 19, 2004).

7.0 3.2 1.4 5.4 8.5 2.5 2.5 1.9 5.4 1.6 1.0 2.1 8.5 4.3 6.2 1.5 1.2 2.7 3.8 2.0 1.2 2.6 4.0 2.6 0.6

a. What is the point estimate of the population mean year-to-date return for large openend funds?

b. Given that the population has a normal distribution, develop a 95% confidence interval for the population mean year-to-date return for open-end funds.