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Young adults living at home A surprising number of young adults (ages 19

to 25) still live in their parents鈥 homes. The National Institutes of Health surveyed

independent random samples of 2253men and 2629women in this age group. The survey found that 986 of the men and 923 of the women lived with their parents.

a. Construct and interpret a 99%confidence interval for the difference in the true

proportions of men and women aged 19-25who live in their parents鈥 homes.

b. Does your interval from part (a) give convincing evidence of a difference between the population proportions? Justify your answer.

Short Answer

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a. Confidence Interval is between 0.051and0.123.

b. Yes, it gives convincing evidence of difference between population proportions.

Step by step solution

01

Given Information

It is given that x1=986

x2=923

n1=2253

n2=2629

c=99%=0.99

02

Calculating Confidence Interval

The conditions are:

Random: Samples are independent random samples.

Independent: 2252men are <10%of all mean and it applies to women also.

Normal: In first sample, there are 983success and 2253-983=1270failures.

In second sample, there are 923success and 2629-923=1706failures. All are greater than ten.

All conditions are satisfied.

Sample proportion is p^1=x1n1=9862253=0.438

p^2=x2n2=9232629=0.351

For 1-=0.99,using table, za/2=2.575

Confidence interval is p^1-p^2-za/2p^11-p^1n1+p^21-p^2n2

=(0.438-0.351)-2.5750.438(1-0.438)2253+0.351(1-0.351)26290.051

and p^1-p^2+za/2p^11-p^1n1+p^21-p^2n2

=(0.438-0.351)+2.5750.438(1-0.438)2253+0.351(1-0.351)26290.123

Hence, confidence interval is0.051,0.123

03

To check if it gives evidence of difference between population proportions

As Confidence Interval is (0.051,0.123). it does not contain zero. It is unlikely that population proportion are equal.

Hence, it gives convincing evidence for difference between population proportions.

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