Chapter 8 Confidence Intervals (Proportions _ counts towards your grade)
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lege were asked whether they had completed their required English 101 course, and 93 students said
"yes". Find the best point estimate for the proportion of students at the college who have completed
their required English 101 course. Round to four decimal places.
.7623
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A new fertilizer was applied to the soil of 108 bean plants. 55% showed increased growth.
Find the margin of error and 95% confidence interval for the percentage of
all
bean plants which
show increased growth after application of the fertilizer. Report answers to at least 2 decimal
places.
Margin of Error (as a percentage):
9.38
Confidence Interval:
45.62
% to
64.38
%
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Assume that a sample is used to estimate a population proportion
p
. Find the 99.5% confidence
interval for a sample of size 375 with 66% successes. Enter your answer as an
open-interval
(
i.e.
,
parentheses) using decimals (not percents) accurate to three decimal places.
C.I. =
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Assume that a sample is used to estimate a population proportion
p
. Find the 99% confidence
interval for a sample of size 167 with 110 successes. Enter your answer as an
open-interval
(
i.e.
,
parentheses) using decimals (not percents) accurate to three decimal places.
C.I. =
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If n = 380 and X = 304, construct a 99% confidence interval for the population proportion, p.
Give your answers to three decimals
.747
< p <
.853
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Out of 300 people sampled, 87 had kids. Based on this, construct a 90% confidence interval for the
true population proportion of people with kids.
Give your answers as decimals, to four places
.247
< p <
.333
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Giving a test to a group of students, the grades and gender are summarized below
A
B
C
Total
Male
15
16
18
49
Female
13
14
5
32
Total
28
30
23
81
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Let
represent the percentage of all female students who would receive a grade of B on this test.
Use a 99.5% confidence interval to estimate p to three decimal places.
Enter your answer as a tri-linear inequality using decimals (not percents).
< p <
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Express the confidence interval
in the form of a trilinear inequality.
%
%
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Assume that a sample is used to estimate a population proportion
p
. Find the 99.5% confidence
interval for a sample of size 375 with 90% successes.
a. Enter your answer as an
open-interval
(
i.e.
, parentheses) using decimals (not percents)
accurate to three decimal places.
Confidence interval =
b. Express the same answer as a tri-linear inequality using decimals (not percents) accurate to
three decimal places.
<
p
<
c. Express the same answer using the point estimate and margin of error. Give your answers as
decimals, to three places.
p
=
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