A Financial Analyst Is Interested in Estimating the Proportion of Publicly

question 57

Essay

A financial analyst is interested in estimating the proportion of publicly traded companies on the New York Stock Exchange that have cash balances that are more than 10 percent of the total assets of the company. A random sample of n = 100 companies shows that 13 had cash balances of more than 10 percent of assets. Based on this information, develop and interpret a 90 percent confidence interval estimate for the population proportion.

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