Elementary Statistics: A Step-by-Step Approach with Formula Card 9th Edition

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Chapter 7 - Confidence Intervals and Sample - 7-3 Confidence Intervals and Sample Size for Proportions - Exercises 7-3 - Page 396: 14

Answer

$0.831\lt p\lt0.913$

Work Step by Step

We have $\hat p=\frac{157}{180}=0.872, \hat q=1-\hat p=0.128 , n=180 $ At a 90% confidence the critical z-value is $z_{\alpha/2}=1.65 $ The margin of error can be found as $E=z_{\alpha/2}\times\sqrt {\frac{\hat p\hat q}{n}}=1.65\times\sqrt {\frac{0.872\times0.128}{180}}=0.041$ Thus, the interval of the true proportion can be found as $\hat p-E\lt p\lt\hat p+E$ which gives $0.831\lt p\lt0.913$
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