Catherine Chao, Director of Marketing Research, Is Evaluating Consumer Acceptance

question 13

Multiple Choice

Catherine Chao, Director of Marketing Research, is evaluating consumer acceptance of a new toothpaste package.She randomly selects a sample of 200 households.Forty households prefer the new package to all other package designs.The 90% confidence interval for the population proportion is _________.

• A)0.199 to 0.201
• B)0.153 to 0.247
• C)0.164 to 0.236
• D)0.145 to 0.255
• E)0.185 to 0.275

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