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In a random sample of 250 people from a city, 148 of them favor apples over other fruits.

a. Use a 90% confidence interval to estimate the true proportion p of people in the population who favor apples over other fruits.

b. How large a sample would be needed to estimate p to be within .15 with 90% confidence?

Short Answer

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a.The true proportion of measurements in the population with characteristics A has the confidence interval (0.6429, 0.5411).

b. The sample size needed to estimate p is 30.

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01

Given information

The sample size is n=250

Let x denotes the measurements possess the characteristics of A, i.e.x=148

02

Calculating the Confidence Interval to estimate the true proportion p

a.

The 90% confidence interval to estimate the true proportion of measurements in the population with characteristics A, is as follows

Since, the proportion of the characteristics of A isp^=xn

Therefore,

\p^=xn=148250=0.592

Now, the 90% confidence interval for p is given as follows:

p^z/2p^q^n

The critical value of z at 90% confidence level, z/2=1.645(from z-table)

Hence, the 90% confidence interval for p is calculated as follows:

p^z/2p^q^n

=0.5921.6450.5921-0.592250=0.5921.6450.5920.408250=0.5921.6450.000966144=0.5921.6450.0310=0.5920.0509=0.6429,0.5411

Hence, the true proportion of measurements in the population with characteristics A has the confidence interval (0.6429, 0.5411).

03

Calculating the Sample size

b.

The sampling error is SE=0.15

The proportion of the characteristics of A is p^=0.592

The sample size n is obtained by using the following formula:

n=z/22p^q^SE2

n=1.64520.5921-0.5920.152=2.7060.5920.4080.0225=29.04

Hence, the sample size needed to estimate p is 30.

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