Chapter 11: Q. 11.34 (page 460)
Obtain a sample size that will ensure a margin of error of at most the one specified.
Margin of error
Confidence level
Short Answer
The required sample size is
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Chapter 11: Q. 11.34 (page 460)
Obtain a sample size that will ensure a margin of error of at most the one specified.
Margin of error
Confidence level
The required sample size is
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Body Mass Index. Refer to Exercise 11.111 and find and interpret a confidence interval for the difference between the percentages of adults in the Iwo degree categories who have an above healthy weight.
Online Tax Returns. According to the Internal Revenue Service, among people entitled to tax refunds, those who file online receive their refunds twice as fast as paper filers. A study conducted by International Communications Research (ICR) of Media, Pennsylvania, found that of those polled said that they are not worried about the privacy of their financial information when filing their tax returns online. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus percentage points (for a confidence level). Use this information to determine a confidence interval for the percentage of all people who are not worried about the privacy of their financial information when filing their tax returns online.
A poll by Gallup asked, "If you won million dollars in the lottery, would you continue to work or stop working?' Of the American adults surveyed, said that they would continue working. Obtain a confidence interval for the proportion of all American adults who would continue working if they won 10 million dollars in the lottery.
Folic Acid and Birth Defects. Refer to Exercise 11.107 and determine and interpret a confidence interval for the difference between the rates of major birth defects for babies born to women who have taken folic acid and those born to women who have not.
In this Exercise, we have given the number of successes and the sample size for a simple random sample from a population. In each case,
a. use the one-proportion plus-four -interval procedure to find the required confidence interval.
b. compare your result with the corresponding confidence interval found in Exercises , if finding such a confidence interval was appropriate.
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