Gastric bypass surgery. How effective is gastric bypass surgery in maintaining weight loss in extremely obese people? A Utah-based study conducted between 2000 and 2011 found that 76% of 418 subjects who had received gastric bypass surgery maintained at least a 20% weight loss six years after surgery.22
(a)Are the conditions for the use of the large-sample confidence interval met?Explain.
(b)Give a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of those receiving gastric bypass surgery that maintained at least a 20% weight loss six years after surgery.
(c)Interpret your interval in the context of the problem.
(c) We are 90% confident that the proportion of those receiving gastric bypass surgery that maintained at least a 20% weight loss six years after surgery lies between 0.7256 and 0.7944.
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