A Company Has Surveyed a Sample of Its Employees to Find

question 33

Short Answer

A company has surveyed a sample of its employees to find out how many might take advantage of a weight loss program.The table below shows the results.Give the 95% confidence interval for Building A for the proportion of employees who would be willing to participate in the program.Based on this interval,can we say that the proportion differs from 11%? At which level of significance are you making this decision? $$\begin{array} { l | c | c | c } \text { Group } & \begin{array} { c } \text { Number of } \\\text { Employees }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Number } \\\text { Surveyed }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Percent to } \\\text { Participate }\end{array} \\\hline \text { Building A } & 5200 & 250 & 8 \% \\\text { Building B } & 1190 & 150 & 6 \% \\\text { Building C } & 248 & 20 & 9 \%\end{array}$$

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