To devise effective marketing strategies it is helpful to know the characteristics of your customers. A study compared the demographic characteristics of people who use the Internet for travel arrangements. Of 932 Internet users, 543 had completed college. (a) Find a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of people who use the Internet for travel arrangements, and have a college degree. (b) Can you conclude from this study that the majority of people who use the Internet for travel arrangements own a college degree? Justify your answer using the confidence interval computed in (a).

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To devise effective marketing strategies it is helpful to know the characteristics of your
customers. A study compared the demographic characteristics of people who use the
Internet for travel arrangements. Of 932 Internet users, 543 had completed college.
(a) Find a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of people who use the Internet
for travel arrangements, and have a college degree.
(b) Can you conclude from this study that the majority of people who use the Internet
for travel arrangements own a college degree? Justify your answer using the
confidence interval computed in (a).
Transcribed Image Text:To devise effective marketing strategies it is helpful to know the characteristics of your customers. A study compared the demographic characteristics of people who use the Internet for travel arrangements. Of 932 Internet users, 543 had completed college. (a) Find a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of people who use the Internet for travel arrangements, and have a college degree. (b) Can you conclude from this study that the majority of people who use the Internet for travel arrangements own a college degree? Justify your answer using the confidence interval computed in (a).
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