A Sociologist Is Studying the Effect of Having Children Within

question 38

Multiple Choice

A sociologist is studying the effect of having children within the first 2 years of marriage on the divorce rate.Using hospital birth records,she selects a simple random sample of 200 couples who had children within the first 2 years of marriage.Following up on these couples,she finds that 80 couples are divorced within 5 years.Let p = the population proportion of couples who had children within the first 2 years of marriage and are divorced within 5 years.Is the sample size of n = 200 large enough to estimate p with a margin of error 0.05 with 90% confidence? Use the observed value 0.40 as the value for p^*.

• A)Yes
• B)No
• C)This cannot be determined from the information given.

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