Candidate a Is Facing Two Opposing Candidates in a Mayoral

question 59

Multiple Choice

Candidate A is facing two opposing candidates in a mayoral election. In a recent poll of 300 residents, 153 supported her. Construct a 90% confidence interval on the population proportion for the support of candidate A in the following election.

• A) [0.4534, 0.5666]
• B) [0.4625, 0.5575]
• C) [0.5086, 0.5114]
• D) [0.5090, 0.5110]

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Definitions:

Indifference Curves

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Marginal Rate

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Convex

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Transitivity

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