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A survey of 120 female freshman showed that 18 did not wish to work after marriage. Find the 95% confidence interval of the true proportion of females who do not…
Number skills of young men. Suppose that scores of men aged 21 to 25 years on the quantitative part of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test follow a…
In a study conducted for the effectiveness of drug A on a certain disease, 60 randomly selected patients with this disease were given medication and 36 patients recovered. Calculate the…
A survey was conducted on a random sample of 1,000 Baltimore residents. Residents were asked whether they have health insurance. 650 individuals surveyed said they do have health insurance, and…
The American Cancer Society wants to estimate the proportion of high school seniors who smokes regularly. In a random sample of 1,000 seniors, 200 smoke regularly. Construct 90% confidence interval.…
A random sample of 100 light bulbs has a mean lifetime of 3000 hours. Assume that the population standard deviation of the lifetime is 500 hours. Construct a 95% confidence…
A researcher wishes to estimate, with 99% confidence, the population proportion of adults who are confident with their country's banking system. His estimate must be accurate within 2% of the…
A trucking firm has a large inventory of spare parts that have been in storage for a long time. It knows that some proportion of these spare parts will have…
Six soil samples taken from a particular region were subjected to chemical analysis to determine the pH of each sample, yielding a sample mean pH of 5.9 and a sample…
The true proportion of defective memory chips produced by a certain company is p. Suppose a random sample of 400 memory chips are tested and 10 of them are found…
