A Sample Survey Finds That 72 Percent of a Sample

question 29

Multiple Choice

A sample survey finds that 72 percent of a sample of 1,017 adults in Kentucky wanted the recently elected governor to retain the health-insurance plan mandated by the Affordable Care Act. If that sample were a simple random sample from the population of all Ohio adults, what would be the 99 percent confidence interval for the percent of all Kentucky adults who feel that way?

• A) 66 to 74 percent
• B) 67 to 75 percent
• C) 68 to 76 percent
• D) 67 to 77 percent
• E) 66 to 78 percent

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