A Student Interviewing at a Major Company Wants to Know

question 94

Short Answer

A student interviewing at a major company wants to know his chances of getting a job offer. He surveyed 18 alumni that had interviewed with the company and found nine of them had received a job offer. Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population proportion.

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Definitions:

Headwaters

The location or general area where a stream or river begins.

Perennial

Describes plants that live for more than two years or streams that flow continuously throughout the year.

Gradient

A rate of inclination or slope, or the rate at which a physical quantity changes with respect to change in another quantity.

Cross-sectional Area

The area of a particular section of an object or material that is exposed when it is cut through by a plane.