Question

A random sample of 145 high school students was surveyed, and 58% of these students said that football was their favorite sport to watch on television.   Use this information to construct a 90% confidence interval in order to estimate the population proportion of high school students whose favorite sport to watch on television is football. Try not to do a lot of intermediate rounding until you get to the end of your calculations, and choose the answer below that is closest to what you obtain.

A. 0.500 to 0.660

B. 0.513 to 0.647

C. 0.539 to 0.621

D.0.577 to 0.583

E. 0.474 to 0.686

Answer 1

Answer : Option (B) is correct.

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