A Researcher Wants to Estimate the Proportion of a Population

question 24

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to estimate the proportion of a population which possesses a given characteristic.A random sample of size 200 is taken and 30% of the sample possesses the characteristic.The 95% confidence interval to estimate the population proportion is ___.

• A)0.53 to 0.67
• B)0.25 to 0.35
• C)0.24 to 0.36
• D)0.27 to 0.33
• E)0.28 to 0.34