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if the confidence interval is 24.4 to 38.0 than the average is the exact middle: 31.2, and the margin of error is 6.8
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_interval Includes a worked out example for the confidence interval of the mean of a distribution. In general, confidence intervals are calculated from the sampling distribution of a statistic. If "n" independent random variables are summed (as in the calculation of a mean), then their sampling distribution will be the t distribution with n-1 degrees of freedom.
Yes, if it is the closed interval. No, if it is the open interval.
You find the the smallest and largest values. The interval is the largest minus the smallest.
to find an interval you have to subtract the first two number from each other for example 5 10 15 20 the interval for this set of data is 5