A research company is interested in determining the true proportion of Americans that work remotely. In a random sample of 200 individuals, 4.5% of them work remotely. Find a 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of Americans that work remotely.

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A research company is interested in determining the true proportion of Americans that work remotely. In a random sample of 200 individuals, 4.5% of them work remotely. Find a 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of Americans that work remotely.

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Obtain the 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of Americans that work remotely.

The 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of Americans that work remotely is obtained below:

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Obtain the critical value of z at the 90% confidence level.

Here, confidence level is 0.90.

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Use EXCEL Procedure for finding the critical value of z.

 

Follow the instruction to obtain the critical value of z:

  1. Open EXCEL
  2. Go to Formula bar.
  3. In formula bar enter the function as“=NORMINV”
  4. Enter the probability as 0.95.
  5. Enter the mean as 0 and the Standard deviation as 1.
  6. Click enter

EXCEL output:

From the EXCEL output, the critical value of z at the 90% confidence level is 1.645.

 

 

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