Do you want to own your own candy store? Wow! With some interest in running your own business and a decent credit rating, you can probably get a bank loan on startup costs for franchises such as Candy Express, The Fudge Company, Karmel Corn, and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Startup costs (in thousands of dollars) for a random sample of candy stores are given below. Assume that the population ofxvalues has an approximately normal distribution.

93, 175, 133, 93, 75, 94, 116, 100, 85

(a) Use a calculator with mean and sample standard deviation keys to find the sample mean startup costxand sample standard deviations. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)

x= thousand dollars

s= thousand dollars

(b) Find a 90% confidence interval for the population average startup costsfor candy store franchises. (Round your answers to one decimal place.)

lower limitthousand dollars

upper limitthousand dollars