Chapter 8.3, Problem 7E

Does It Make Sense? For Exercises 5–8, determine whether the statement makes sense (or is clearly true) or does not make sense (or is clearly false). Explain clearly. Not all of these statements have definitive answers, so your explanation is more important than your chosen answer.

7. Confidence Interval in the Media. The Kingston Chronicle publishes an article stating that, based on survey results, 82% of Orange County residents oppose an increase in the sales tax, with a margin of error of 4 percentage points. We can therefore express the confidence interval as 0.78 < p < 0.86.