James Desreumaux,VP of Human Resources of American First Banks (AFB),is reviewing the employee training programs of AFB banks. His staff randomly selected personnel files for 10 tellers in the Southwest Region,and determined that their mean training time was 25 hours and that the standard deviation was 5 hours. Assume that training times are normally distributed. The 90% confidence interval for the population variance of training times is ________.
A) 11.83 to 83.33
B) 2.37 to 16.67
C) 2.66 to 13.51
D) 13.30 to 67.67
E) 15.00 to 68.00

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The confidence interval for the population variance is calculated using the Chi-square distribution. With a sample size of 10, the degrees of freedom is 9. Using the Chi-square distribution table for 90% confidence, the interval is calculated as (n-1)s^2/χ²(upper) to (n-1)s^2/χ²(lower), which results in 13.30 to 67.67.