Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134683416
Author: Ron Larson, Betsy Farber
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8, Problem 1CR
(a)
To determine
To construct and interpret: The 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of U.S. adults who say their household contains a desktop or laptop computer.
(b)
To determine
To test: Whether there is evidence to support the claim that more than 75% of U.S. adults say their household contains a desktop or laptop computer or not.
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