A local newspaper in a large city wants to assess support for the construction of a highway bypass around the central business district to reduce downtown traffic.  They survey a random sample of 1152 residents and find that 543 of them support the bypass.  Construct and interpret a 95% confidence interval to estimate the proportion of residents who support construction of the bypass

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Q: In 2005, Health Canada claimed that 16.8% of Canadian adults are obese. A researcher wanted to check…

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Q: According to areport on consumer fraud and identity theft, 22% of all complaints during one year…

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Q: A car repair business randomly selects receipts for parts purchased on 16 different jobs. The mean…

A: given data, n=16x¯=31.32s=30.42CI=0.95α=1-0.95=0.05df=n-1=16-1=15we  have to construct the 95%…

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Q: In 2013, Steve LeCompte, a stock market trader and analyst, did a study to see which TV…

A: We have given that  Sample size n =678 Favorable cases x =320 Sample proportion p^=x/n  =320/678…

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Q: A park ranger takes a sample of 15 national park patrons and measures their attitudes about a new…

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Q: A credit score is used by credit agencies (such as mortgage companies and banks) to assess the…

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Q: A medical research team wanted to perform a statistical inference procedure to see if there is a…

A: The 95% confidence interval is (-0.125, 0.083).

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A: Given : Margin of error: ME = 0.05

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Q: Inadequate exposure to outdoor lighting conditions may increase the risk of myopia in children. A…

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Q: 99% confidence interval for the proportion of the high school students who have been cyberbullied,…

A: Given that Sample size n = 14795 Number of high school students who have cyberbullied, X = 2219 The…

Q: Heather runs a successful lawn-mowing business. She would like to estimate the true mean amount of…

A: Given that  Sample size n =30 90 % confidence interval is (40 , 55)

Q: According the the U.S. Census bureau, the percentage of Santa Ana residents living in poverty is…

A: Given: p^1=0.177p^2=0.133n1=1200n2=1500

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Q: A medical researcher claims that smoking can result in the wrinkled skin around the eyes. The…

A: Given Information: Smokers: n1=150 x1=95 Nonsmokers: n2=250 x2=105 Confidence level is 95%

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Q: A recent study asked U.S. adults to name 10 historic events that occurred in their lifetime that…

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Q: A research study was conducted about gender differences in "sexting." The researcher believed that…

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A: Given data number of success , x= 250.0 sample size, n = 97 population…

Q: A sociologist develops a test to measure attitudes about public transportation, and 20 randomly…

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Q: A second-semester junior at a large high school wants to estimate the number of colleges a senior…

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A: Given that  Sample size n =1035 Favorable cases x =497 Sample proportion p^=x/n  =497/1035 =0.4802

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Estimation

A new framework of data analysis where the new statistical methods are used for interpreting the results and analyzing the data is known as estimation in statistics.