The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 23 - Comparing Two Proportions - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 550: 23.7a

Answer

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Work Step by Step

A big confidence interval can be used if the number of successes and failures is at least $10$ for both samples. Thus we cannot use a big confidence interval, since the first sample has only $6$ successes.
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