A Local Planning Commission Is Interested in Finding Out What

question 7

Multiple Choice

A local planning commission is interested in finding out what proportion of its city's residents is opposed to constructing a new baseball stadium in the downtown area. A random sample of 1870 residents is obtained, and 41.2 percent of them are opposed to the stadium.
A 95 percent confidence interval was created for the proportion of the city's residents who are opposed to constructing a new baseball stadium in the downtown area. A "95 percent confidence" means that:

• A) 95 percent of all residents oppose constructing a new stadium in the downtown area.
• B) the interval was obtained by using a method that would give a range containing the true value for 95 percent of all samples.
• C) the interval contains the true proportion of all residents who oppose constructing a new stadium in the downtown area.
• D) 95 percent of all educated adults would believe the statement.

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