A Simple Random Sample of 85 Students Is Taken from a Large

question 35

Multiple Choice

A simple random sample of 85 students is taken from a large university on the West Coast to estimate the proportion of students whose parents bought a car for them when they left for college.When interviewed,51 students in the sample responded that their parents bought them a car.What is a 95% confidence interval for p,the population proportion of students whose parents bought a car for them when they left for college?

• A)(0.296,0.504)
• B)(0.463,0.737)
• C)(0.496,0.704)
• D)(0.513,0.687)

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