In 20 packages of Doggy Meat Snacks there were 66 lamb snack
In 20 packages of “Doggy Meat Snacks” there were 66 lamb snacks. The total number of snacks in the 20 bags was 110 . We wish to calculate a 90% confidence interval for the population proportion of lamb snacks.
Which distribution should you use for this problem? (pick one) Binomial Normal Uniform Poisson
The sample proportion is
p= _______
The critical value zcrit of the standard normal distribution for the 90% confidence interval is
zcrit= ________
The standard error for p is
standard error = ________
The error bound for the proportion (EBP) is
EBP = _________
The confidence interval is given by (L,U) , where
the lower bound is L= _____ and the upper bound is U= _______
Note: The computed L may be <0 , and the computed U may be >1 . Enter these in any case.
Solution
Normal distribution
p = 66/110 = 0.6
critical value for alpha = 1 - 0.90 = 0.10
alpha/2 = 0.05
critical Z = +/- 1.64
Standard error = srqt ( 0.6*0.4/110) = 0.0467
errror bound 0.6 +/- 1.64 * 0.0467
0.6 +/- 0.0766
lower bound = 0.5234
upper bound = 0.6766
