Of 1019 U.S. adults responding to a 2017 Harris poll, 47% said they always or often read
Question:
Of 1019 U.S. adults responding to a 2017 Harris poll, 47% said they always or often read nutrition labels when grocery shopping.
a. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of U.S. adults who always or often read nutrition labels when grocery shopping.
b. What is the width of the 95% confidence interval?
c. Name a confidence level that would produce an interval wider than the 95% confidence interval. Explain why you think this interval would be wider than a 95% confidence interval.
d. Construct the interval using the confidence level you proposed in part c and find the width of the interval. Is this interval wider than the 95% confidence interval?
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Introductory Statistics Exploring The World Through Data
ISBN: 9780135163146
3rd Edition
Authors: Robert Gould, Rebecca Wong, Colleen N. Ryan