I am struggling with the below question The text is Basic St
I am struggling with the below question. The text is Basic Statistics for Business & Economics 8e
The Capital Area Transit Authority (CAT) wished to estimate the proportion of central city workers that use public transportation to get to work. A recent study reported that of 100 workers, 29 use public transportation. Develop a 95% confidence interval. *Use Appendix B.1 and round your answer to the nearest thousandth.*
Solution
Note that
p^ = point estimate of the population proportion = x / n = 0.29
Also, we get the standard error of p, sp:
sp = sqrt[p^ (1 - p^) / n] = 0.045376205
Now, for the critical z,
alpha/2 = 0.025
Thus, z(alpha/2) = 1.96
Thus,
lower bound = p^ - z(alpha/2) * sp = 0.201062638
upper bound = p^ + z(alpha/2) * sp = 0.378937362
Thus, the confidence interval is
( 0.201 , 0.379 ) [ANSWER]
