Intro Stats
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Author: Richard D. De Veaux
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 20.3, Problem 1JC
A public broadcasting station plans to launch a special appeal for additional contributions from current members. Unsure of the most effective way to contact people, they run an experiment. They randomly select two groups of current members. They send the same request for donations to everyone, but it goes to one group by e-mail and to the other group by regular mail. The station was successful in getting contributions from 26% of the members they e-mailed but only from 15% of those who received the request by regular mail. A 90% confidence
1. Interpret the confidence interval in this context.
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