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Explain whether the conditions to construct the confidence interval is satisfied or not.
Answer to Problem 29E
All three conditions for confidence interval is not satisfied.
Explanation of Solution
Given Information:
Population size = 2673
Number of success = 0.2% of population size
To calculate a confidence interval three conditions should be satisfied. Conditions are Random, Independent and Normal.
The condition of random is not satisfied since the all the samples taken that are related to each other.
Since the
The survey results the number of success is 5 isless than 10 thus condition of normal is not satisfied.
Hence, all three conditions for confidence interval is not satisfied.
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