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Health spending per person from a random sample of 20 countriesis shown below.

Country	Per capita health expenditure in 2010
Bahrain	868
Belarus	324
Belize	243
Brunei Darussalam	886
Colombia	476
Congo, Rep.	76
Cote d’Ivorie	64
Cuba	611
Finland	3988
Germany	4672
Guinea-Bissau	51
Guyana	184
Jamaica	247
Lesotho	113
Malta	1701
Morocco	152
Namibia	365
Phillipines	81
Qatar	1493
Saudi Arabia	684

1. Create a histogram by hand for the frequencies of the percapita health expenditure data.
2. What feature or features of this distribution indicate that thedata are likely not from a population having a normaldistribution?
3. What features of this distribution make it a good candidate totry a log transformation?
4. Calculate the natural log transformation for each data point ofthe sample. Create a new histogram with this transformed data, byhand.
5. What is the sample size?
6. What is the mean of the log health expenditure?
7. What is the standard deviation of the mean log healthexpenditure?
8. Calculate the standard error of the mean log healthexpenditure.
9. Calculate the 95% confidence interval for the meanlog health expenditure and interpret it in full sentences.
10. What are the 95% confidence intervals on the non-logscale? Convert back the two values in your confidenceinterval.