The Consumer Product Safety Commission regulates products sold for use with children. An investigator is tasked with determining whether a male child will get sick after being exposed to a certain brand of house paint than a female child. Data was collected that on 1854 children between the ages one and four, all of whom were exposed to the same brand of house paint. 985 were boys, while 869 were girls. Determine a 95% confidence interval for the difference in proportions of male and female children, ages one to four, who will get sick. Round to four decimal places. With % confidence, it can be concluded that the difference in proportions of between male and female children, ages one to four, who get sick after being exposed to this brand of house paint is (p1 - p2) is between BLANK and BLANK .

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The Consumer Product Safety Commission regulates products sold for use with children. An investigator is tasked with determining whether a male child will get sick after being exposed to a certain brand of house paint than a female child. Data was collected that on 1854 children between the ages one and four, all of whom were exposed to the same brand of house paint. 985 were boys, while 869 were girls. Determine a 95% confidence interval for the difference in proportions of male and female children, ages one to four, who will get sick. Round to four decimal places.

With % confidence, it can be concluded that the difference in proportions of between male and female children, ages one to four, who get sick after being exposed to this brand of house paint is (p1 - p2) is between BLANK and BLANK

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