A 2013 survey of 1028 Americans had 576 respond favorably to the idea of a law that would reduce the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. Produce a 99% confidence interval for the true proportion of adults in the U.S. who would respond favorably to such a law by following the steps below. Please show steps of how the answer was found. What is your point estimate? What z* (or critical value) are you using? What is the standard error of your estimate? What is the 99% confidence interval?

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Section13.2: Expected Value And Variance Of Continuous Random Variables
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  1. A 2013 survey of 1028 Americans had 576 respond favorably to the idea of a law that would reduce the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. Produce a 99% confidence interval for the true proportion of adults in the U.S. who would respond favorably to such a law by following the steps below. Please show steps of how the answer was found.
    1. What is your point estimate?
    2. What z* (or critical value) are you using?
    3. What is the standard error of your estimate?
    4. What is the 99% confidence interval?
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n=1028

x=576

 

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