According to a poll, 685 out of 1021 randomly selected adults living in a certain country felt the laws covering the sale of firearms should be more strict. a. What is the value of p, the sample proportion who favor stricter gun laws? b. Check the conditions to determine whether the CLT can be used to find a confidence interval. c. Find a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion who favor stricter gun laws. d. Based on your confidence interval, do a majority of adults in the country favor stricter gun laws?

According to a poll, 685 out of 1021 randomly selected adults living in a certain country felt the laws covering the sale of firearms should be more strict. a. What is the value of p, the sample proportion who favor stricter gun laws? b. Check the conditions to determine whether the CLT can be used to find a confidence interval. c. Find a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion who favor stricter gun laws. d. Based on your confidence interval, do a majority of adults in the country favor stricter gun laws?

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Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

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Section10.6: Summarizing Categorical Data

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