A political candidate has asked you to conduct a poll to determine what percentage of people support her. If the candidate only wants a 10% margin of error at a 95% confidence level, what size of sample is needed?

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A political candidate has asked you to conduct a poll to determine what percentage of people support her.

If the candidate only wants a 10% margin of error at a 95% confidence level, what size of sample is needed?

 

We wish to estimate what percent of adult residents in Ventura County like chocolate. Out of 400 adult residents sampled, 272 like chocolate. To construct a 90% confidence interval for the proportion (p) of adult residents who like chocolate in Ventura County, you need to use which one of the following calculator?

  • Chi-Square Test for Independence
  • Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit
  • One-Way ANOVA
  • Hypothesis Test for a Population Mean Given Statistics
  • Two Independent Proportions Comparison
  • Two Dependent Sample Means Comparison Given Data
  • Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion
  • Confidence Interval for a Population Mean Given Data
  • Hypothesis Test for a Population Proportion
  • Hypothesis Test for a Population Mean Given Data
  • Two Independent Sample Means Comparison Given Data
  • Confidence Interval for a Population Mean Given Statistics
  • Two Independent Sample Means Comparison Given Statistics
    1. Enter your answer as an open-interval (i.e., parentheses) using decimals (not percents) accurate to three decimal places.
      Confidence interval =

 

    1. Express the same answer as a tri-linear inequality using decimals (not percents) accurate to three decimal places. < p <

 

  1. 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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