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Facebook As part of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, researchers conducted two surveys. The first survey asked a random sample of 1060U.S. teens about their use of social media. A second survey posed similar questions to a random sample of 2003U.S. adults. In these two studies, 71.0%of teens and 58.0%of adults used Facebook. Let plocalid="1654194806576" T3051526=0.200=20.0%pT= the true proportion of all U.S. teens who use Facebook and pA3051526=0.200=20%pA = the true proportion of all U.S. adults who use Facebook. Calculate and interpret a 99%confidence interval for the difference in the true proportions of U.S. teens and adults who use Facebook.

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We are 99%confident that the true proportion of U.S. teens who use Facebook is between 0.0842 and 0.1758 higher than the true proportion of U.S. adults who use Facebook.

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Given information

We have given

n1= Sample size = 1060

p^1= Sample proportion = 71.0%= 0.710

n2= Sample size = 2003

p^2= Sample proportion = 58.0%= 0.580

c = confidence level = 99%= 0.99

Now we will the conditions for the calculation of hypothesis test for the population proportion p i.e. Random, Independent, Normal.

Randon: As samples are random, hense satisfied.

Independent: Samples are independent as well because 1060U.S. teens are less than 10%of all U.S. teens and the 2003U.S. adults are less than 10%of all U.S. adults.

Normal: n1p^1= 1060(0.710)=752.6, n1(1-p^1)=1060(1-0.710)=307.4, n2p^2=2003(0.580)=1161.74, n2(1-p^2)=2003(1-0.580)=841.26

all values are less than 10. Hence, satisfied.

As all the conditions satisfies, we will determine confience level for p1-p2

02

Confidence Level

Given Confidence level 1-α=0.99,

we determine zα2=z0.005using normal probability table, we get

zα2=2.575

Now,

Margin of error, E = zα2.p^1(1-p^1)n1+p^2(1-p^2)n2=2.5750.710(1-0.710)1060+0.580(1-0.580)2003≈0.0458

Endpoints for the confidence level are now:

(p^1-p^2)-E=(0.710-0.580)-0.0458=0.130-0.0458≈0.0842(p^1-p^2)+E=(0.710-0.580)+0.0458=0.130+0.0458≈0.1758

Therefore, we are99% confident that the trye proportion of U.S. teens who use Facebook is between 0.0842and 0.1758higher than the true proportion of U.S. adults who use Facebook.

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