A Confidence Interval Was Used to Estimate the Proportion of Statistics

question 42

Multiple Choice

A confidence interval was used to estimate the proportion of statistics students that are females. A random sample of 72 statistics students generated the following 90% confidence interval: (0.438, 0.642) . Based on the interval above, is the population proportion of females equal to 0.60?

• A) Maybe. 0.60 is a believable value of the population proportion based on the information above.
• B) Yes, and we are 90% sure of it.
• C) No, and we are 90% sure of it.
• D) No. The proportion is 54.17%.

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