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The student body president of a high school claims to know the names of at least 1000of the 1800 students who attend the school. To test this claim, the student government advisor randomly selects 100students and asks the president to identify each by name. The president successfully names only 46of the students.

a. Identify the population and parameter of interest.

b. Check conditions for constructing a confidence interval for the parameter.

c. Construct a 99%confidence interval for p.

d. Interpret the interval in context.

Short Answer

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Part a. The population is all students who attend the school and parameter is proportion of students who the student body president knows the name of.

Part b. All the conditions are met.

Part c. The 99%confidence interval for a proportion is 0.3317<p<0.5883

Part d. We are 99%confident that the true population proportion is between0.3317and0.5883.

Step by step solution

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Part a. Step 1. Given information

n=1000x=46

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Part a. Step 2. Explanation

First need to understand about population and parameter.

Population: It is the set of all the possible individuals possessing the characteristic of interest in a study.

Parameter: A parameter is a numerical characteristic based on observations from the entire population of objects in a study.

In this study, population is all students who attend the school and parameter is proportion of students who the student body president knows the name of.

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Part b. Step 1. Explanation

The condition of random selection is satisfied because the sample is SRS.

The sample should be less than 10%of the population. Here, 100students鈥 chips are less than 10%of all the 1800students in population. Hence, this condition met.

The last condition is, number of success and failure must be 10. Therefore, number of successes =4610and number failures =100-46=5410which is met. Hence, all the conditions of confidence interval are met.

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Part c. Step 1. Formula Used

Sample proportion:

p^=xn

Margin of error:

E=Z/2p^(1-p^)n

The confidence interval:

(p^-E,p^+E)

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Part c. Step 2. Explanation

The confidence level=0.99

So, level of significance=a=0.01

The zc=z/2critical value =2.575....

The sample proportion is,

p^=46100=0.46

The margin of error is,

E=2.5750.46(1-0.46)100E=0.1283

The confidence interval is,

role="math" localid="1663922962651" (0.46-0.1283,0.46+0.1283)(0.3317,0.5883)

Hence, the 99%confidence interval for population proportion isrole="math" localid="1663922956187" 0.3317<p<0.5883

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Part c. Step 1. Explanation

We are 99%confident that the true population proportion of all students that the students body president knows is0.3317and0.5883

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