In a clinical trial for an insomnia treatment, a group of 22 subjects had a mean "wake time" of 94.3 minutes after receiving the treatment and a standard deviation of 23.1 minutes.  a) construct a 95% confidence level for the mean.  b) if the subjects had a "wake time" of 100 minutes before

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In a clinical trial for an insomnia treatment, a group of 22 subjects had a mean "wake time" of 94.3 minutes after receiving the treatment and a standard deviation of 23.1 minutes. 
a) construct a 95% confidence level for the mean. 
b) if the subjects had a "wake time" of 100 minutes before this treatment, does it seem like this treatment is effective? Explain.

c) suppose the group had a standard deviation of 40.2 minutes for the "wake time". Construct a 90% confidence interval for the standard deviation. 

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