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? asked in Education & ReferenceHomework Help · 4 years ago

How to construct invalid variable percent confidence interval?

Randomly survey 416 drivers and find 308 claim to always buckle up. Construct a Invalid variable percent confidence interval for the population proportion.

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What would a invalid variable% confidence interval mean?

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  • 4 years ago

    OK, here you go sweetheart :)

    I'm not too sure what you mean when you say: "Construct a Invalid variable percent confidence interval for the population proportion."

    SO I'm going to assume you want a 95% confidence interval just for clarity sake.

    p = 308/416 = 0.74

    σ = √ [p(1 - p) /n]

    σ = √ ((0.74 × 0.26) /416)

    σ = 0.022

    Formula for a 95% confidence interval :

    p - 1.96σ < μ < p + 1.96σ

    Substituting in values gives :

    0.74 - (1.96 × 0.022) < μ < 0.74 + (1.96 × 0.022)

    0.697 < μ < 0.783

    0.70 < μ < 0.78

    So, the mean of the proportion lies somewhere between 0.70 as the lower bound and 0.78 as the upper bound.

    The confidence interval calculated above has a width that is not too wide which we can conclude to be a very good estimate of the actual mean.

    Hope this helps !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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