An Internet Service Provider Is Interested in Estimating the Proportion

question 103

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An Internet service provider is interested in estimating the proportion of homes in a particular community that have computers but do not already have Internet access. To do this, the company has selected a random sample of n = 200 homes and made calls. A total of 188 homes responded to the survey question with 38 saying that they had a computer with no Internet access. The 95 percent confidence interval estimate for the true population proportion is approximately 0.1447 - 0.2595.

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