Mr Stat wanted to determine the population proportion of students who drop out of his statistics course. He finds of the 160 students who started the term, 32 stopped attending. Find a 99% confidence interval for the population proportion of students who drop statistics. Interpret your answer.
Part A - Fill out the pieces of the formula: times the square root of ( times divided by )
Part B - To two decimal places, the interval is ( , ) Make sure this is small value first.
Part C - We are confident the population is between and of the students.
Answers:
Part A:
Part B:
(0.12, 0.28)
Part C:
We are 99% confident the population proportion is between 0.12 and 0.28 of the students who drop statistics.
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