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Chapter 12: Q. 15 (page 802)

A Harris Poll found that 54%of American adults don鈥檛 think that human beings developed from earlier species. The poll鈥檚 margin of error for 95%confidence was 3%. This means that ,

(a) There is a 95%chance that the interval (51%,57%) contains the true percent of American adults who do not think that human beings developed from earlier species.

(b) The poll used a method that provides an estimate within 3%of the truth about the population 95%of the time.

(c) If Harris takes another poll using the same method, the results of the second poll will lie between 51%and 57%.

(d) Harris should have surveyed more people so that the margin of error would be 0%instead of 3%.

(e) The poll used a method that would result in an interval that contains 54%in 95%of all possible samples of the same size from this population.

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(b) The poll used a method that provides an estimate within3%of the truth about the population95%of the time.

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01

Given information.

We have been given that,

54%American don't think human beings are developed from earlier species.

Poll's margin of error for 95%confidence = 3%.

We need to find the correct method for estimation of the Poll.

02

Simplify.

54% estimate says that American don't think human beings are developed from earlier species.

Census is accurate way to analyze this fact instead of poll.

Margin of error calculated by the sample data is 3%, best way to analyze a confidence interval.

(a) In this option it's either a 0%or 100%that the true percent is within the interval (since the true percent does not change).Therefore ,this is not possible.

A confidence interval approach interval says that if this method was used thousands of times, about 95%chance of the intervals will provide an estimate within the truth 3%of the time.

Hence , the correct option is (b).

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