Out of 200 people sampled, 116 preferred Candidate A. Based on this, estimate what proportion of the voting population prefers Candidate A with 99% confidence.

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Out of 200 people sampled, 116 preferred Candidate A. Based on this, estimate what proportion of the voting population prefers Candidate A with 99% confidence.

 

Out of 500 people sampled, 455 had kids.
The best point estimate for pp is .
The margin of error for a 99% confidence interval is 

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We need to construct the 99% confidence interval for the population proportion.

Number of favorable cases x=116

Sample size n=200

 

The sample proportion is calculated as,

p^=xn=116200=0.58

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