Mr. E. Santiago’s company sells bottled coconut juice.

He
claims that a bottle contains 500 ml of such juice. A
consumer group wanted to know if his claim is true. They
took six random samples of 10 of such bottles and
obtained the capacity, in ml, of each bottle. The result is
shown as follows :
Sample 1 500 498 497 503 499 497 497 497 497 495
Sample 2 500 500 495 494 498 500 500 500 500 497
Sample 3 497 497 502 496 497 497 497 497 497 495
Sample 4 501 495 500 497 497 500 500 495 497 497
Sample 5 502 497 497 499 496 497 497 599 500 500
Sample 6 496 497 496 495 497 497 500 500 496 497

Find :
a) the best point estimate of the population mean.
b) the 99% confidence interval of the population
mean.