1) Kim wants to determine a 99 percent confidence interval for
the true proportion p of high school students in the area who
attend their home basketball games. Out of n randomly selected
students she finds that that exactly half attend their home
basketball games. About how large would ? have to be to get a
margin of error less than 0.01 for p?
[Use the values for z* from a z-table or t-table, and round to the
smallest integer that works.]
n≈?
2) A poll is taken in which 379 out of 600randomly selected
voters indicated their preference for a certain candidate.
(a) Find a 99% confidence interval for p.
≤ ? ≤.
(b) Find the margin of error for this 99% confidence interval for
p.
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