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

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Chapter 7 - Confidence Intervals and Sample - Review Exercises - Section 7-3 - Page 408: 7

Answer

$0.39\leq p\leq 0.49$

Work Step by Step

We can find $\hat p=442/1004=0.44, \hat q=0.56$ With $c=0.95$ we can find $Z_{\alpha/2}=1.96$ The margin of error is $E=Z_{\alpha/2}\sqrt \frac{\hat p \hat q}{n}=1.96\times\sqrt \frac{0.44\times0.56}{442}=0.05$ We construct the confidence interval as $(\hat p-E, \hat p+E)$ which gives $(0.39, 0.49)$ The true population proportion is in the interval $0.39\leq p\leq 0.49$
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