Introductory Statistics (2nd Edition)

2nd Edition

ISBN: 9780321978271

Author: Robert Gould, Colleen N. Ryan

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 7, Problem 59SE

Past Presidential Vote In the 1960 presidential election, 34,226,731 people voted for Kennedy, 34,108,157 for Nixon, and 197,029 for third-party candidates

a. What percentage of voters chose Kennedy?

b. Would it be appropriate to find a confidence interval for the proportion of voters choosing Kennedy? Why or why not?

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Solution Summary: The author explains how the percentage of voters who voted for Kennedy, Nixon, and third party candidates is 49.9%.

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