1) You want to determine if the proportion of people who will vote for the president next year has increased due to current events. You take a simple random sample of 1100 individuals and find that 897 of them said that they will be voting in the election. Construct a 95% confidence interval, by hand (mean using the equations in the section). And then write the conclusion to the confidence interval in a complete sentence.
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= 897/1100 = 0.815
At 95% confidence level, the critical value is z0.025 = 1.96
The 95% confidence interval is
+/- z0.025 * sqrt((1 - )/n)
= 0.815 +/- 1.96 * sqrt(0.815(1 - 0.815)/1100)
= 0.815 +/- 0.0229
= 0.7921, 0.8379
We are 95% confident that the true proportion of people who will vote for president next year lies in the above confience interval.
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