We wish to estimate what percent of adult residents in a certain county are parents. Out of 100 adult residents sampled, 12 had kids. Based on this, construct a 95% confidence interval for the proportion p of adult residents who are parents in this county. Express your answer in tri-inequality form. Give your answers as decimals, to three places.  < p <  Express the same answer using the point estimate and margin of error. Give your answers as decimals, to three places. p =_________  ±______

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We wish to estimate what percent of adult residents in a certain county are parents. Out of 100 adult residents sampled, 12 had kids. Based on this, construct a 95% confidence interval for the proportion p of adult residents who are parents in this county.

Express your answer in tri-inequality form. Give your answers as decimals, to three places.

 < p <  Express the same answer using the point estimate and margin of error. Give your answers as decimals, to three places.

p =_________  ±______

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The point estimate of the population proportion is the sample proportion.

From the given table, 12 out of the 100 adult residents had kids.

The sample proportion is 12/100 = 0.12.

Step 2

The sample size is 100.

Since the required confidence interval is 95%, the two-tailed z value at 0.05 level of significance is 1.96.

The 95% confidence interval for the population proportion is calculated as follows:

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