The student government association at a university wants to estimate the percentage of the student body that supports a change being considered in the academic calendar of the university for the next academic year. How many students should be surveyed if a 90% confidence interval is desired and the margin of error is to be only 3%?

When a population has less variability, for the same margin of error and confidence level, the confidence interval becomes   a. larger b. smaller c. of unchanged size

Through polling, it was estimated that the percent of people who will vote for a particular candidate in an upcoming election is 36.2%. If the margin of error is 3.5, give the confidence interval for the percentage of people who will vote for the candidate in the upcoming election.% to %

9. A researcher wants to construct a 99% confidence interval for the proportion of Americans who think that the U.S. invading Iraq was an effective step in combating world terrorism. She has no initial idea of what that proportion is. How large should her sample size be if she wants the margin of error to be at most two percent? Show or explain your thinking.

An apartment hunter is shopping for either a one-bedroom or two-bedroom apartment in varying apartment buildings. She wants to estimate the additional amount she would have to pay, on average, for a two-bedroom apartment versus a one-bedroom apartment. The table shows the prices, in dollars, for one- and two-bedroom apartments from the nine buildings she visited.   A 95% confidence interval for the true mean difference between two-bedroom and one-bedroom apartments for apartment buildings like the ones in the sample was (255.93, 508.51). A friend of the apartment hunter tells her to expect to pay about $500 more per month for a two-bedroom apartment than for a one-bedroom apartment. Does the confidence interval provide evidence for the friend’s claim? A. No, the confidence interval does not contain 0, so the friend’s claim is not plausible. B. No, the confidence interval contains many more numbers below 500 than above 500, so it is unlikely that the friend’s assertion is correct. C.…

Thelma and Louise are each attempting to estimate the proportion of adults who enjoy listening to country music. They each survey a different random sample of adults, and in each sample, the proportion who say they enjoy listening to country music is 0.29. Thelma and Louise each use their sample data to construct a confidence interval. Thelma's interval is from 0.242 to 0.338 and Louise's interval is from 0.237 to 0.323. One of these intervals was computed correctly and the other was not. Which interval must be the correct one? It's impossible to answer this question without knowing the level of confidence used for each interval. It's impossible to answer this question without knowing the sample sizes. O It's impossible to answer this question without knowing the sample sizes or the level of confidence used for each interval. Thelma's interval must be the correct interval. O Louise's interval must be the correct interval.

if n = 42, p = 0.6 then construct the 98% confidence interval for the population proportion.

When you hold the mouse pointer over a point on the graph, the specific value corresponding to that point appears (e.g., “California, 2013 - 19.4%”) as well as a line called “90% Confidence” followed by an range of values.  Generally speaking, what does the range of values denoted by “90% Confidence” indicate?

If n=470 and p̂ (p-hat) = 0.65, construct a 95% confidence interval.

According to a poll, 81% of California adults (410 out of 506 surveyed) feel that education is one of the top issues facing California. We wish to construct a 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of California adults who feel that education is one of the top issues facing California.What is a point estimate for the true population proportion?