A new kind of typhoid shot is being developed by a medical research team. The old typhoid shot was known to protect the population for a mean time of 36 months, with a standard deviation of 3 months. To test the time variability of the new shot, a random sample of29people were given the new shot. Regular blood tests showed that the sample standard deviation of protection times was1.7months. Using a 0.05 level of significance, test the claim that the new typhoid shot has a smaller variance of protection times.

Find the value of the chi-square statistic for the sample. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)

What are the degrees of freedom?

Find a 90% confidence interval for the population standard deviation. (Round your answers to two decimal places.)

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