A landscaping firm is interested in estimating the proportion of trees that survive one year after being planted. Based on a cluster sample of 63 clients it is found that out of the 598 trees that were planted, 545 survived. What would be a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of trees that survived one year?
We need to construct the 95% confidence interval for the population proportion. We have been provided with the following information about the number of favorable cases:
Favorable Cases X = | 545 |
Sample Size N = | 598 |
The sample proportion is computed as follows, based on the sample size N=598 and the number of favorable cases X=545:
The critical value for α=0.05 is . The corresponding confidence interval is computed as shown below:
Therefore, based on the data provided, the 95% confidence interval for the population proportion is 0.889<p<0.934
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