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An article regarding interracial dating and marriage recently appeared In the Washington Post. Of the 1,709 randomly selected adults, 315 identified themselves as Latinos, 323 identified themselves as blacks. 25.1 identified themselves as Asians, and 779 identified themselves as whites. In this survey, 86% of blacks said that they would welcome a white person into their families. Among Asians, 77% would welcome a white person into their families. 71% would welcome a Latino, and 66% would welcome a black person.
a. W are interested in finding the 95% confidence Interval for the percent of all black adults who would welcome a white person into their families. Define the random variables X and P. In words.
b. Which distribution should you use for this problem? Explain your choice.
c. Construct a 95% confidence Interval.
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i. State the confidence Interval.
ii. Sketch the graph.
iii. Calculate the error bound.
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