Answer:
not really
Step-by-step explanation:
The number of friends (x) is expected to be an integer. 6.5 friends does not really make sense.
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There are all kinds of ways this might make sense, but none of them are supported by the information given in the problem statement.
The correct answer per pound is $1.49 per pound. Kyle is correct because dividing 2.98/2= 1.49 or multiplying Kyle's answer by 2 will give you the correct amount!
There is a relationship between confidence interval and standard deviation:

Where

is the mean,

is standard deviation, and n is number of data points.
Every confidence interval has associated z value. This can be found online.
We need to find the standard deviation first:

When we do all the calculations we find that:

Now we can find confidence intervals:

We can see that as confidence interval increases so does the error margin. Z values accociated with each confidence intreval also get bigger as confidence interval increases.
Here is the link to the spreadsheet with standard deviation calculation:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pnsJIrM_lmQKAGRJvduiHzjg9mYvLgpsCqCoGYvR5Us/edit?usp=sharing