Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Excel (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781285433301
Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 8.4, Problem 37E
One of the questions on a survey of 1000 adults asked if today’s children will be better off than their parents (Rasmussen Reports website, October 26, 2012). Representative data are shown in the DATAfile named ChildOutlook. A response of Yes indicates that the adult surveyed did think today’s children will be better off than their parents. A response of No indicates that the adult surveyed did not think today’s children will be better off than their parents. A response of Not Sure was given by 23% of the adults surveyed.
- a. What is the point estimate of the proportion of the population of adults who do think that today’s children will be better off than their parents?
- b. At 95% confidence, what is the margin of error?
- c. What is the 95% confidence interval for the proportion of adults who do think that today’s children will be better off than their parents?
- d. What is the 95% confidence interval for the proportion of adults who do not think that today’s children will be better off than their parents?
- e. Which of the confidence intervals in parts (c) and (d) has the smaller margin of error? Why?
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