AP Statistics › Confidence and Proportion
In a simple random sample of people,
are left-handed. Find a
confidence interval for the true proportion of left-handed people in the entire population.
In a simple random sample of people,
are left-handed. Find a
confidence interval for the true proportion of left-handed people in the entire population.
A health insurance executive suspects that 50% of insurance applications are incomplete (i.e. critical data is missing from the application). He wants to gather a sample to estimate the true proportion. He wants to be within 5% of the true mean with 95% confidence.
What sample size does he need?
A health insurance executive suspects that 50% of insurance applications are incomplete (i.e. critical data is missing from the application). He wants to gather a sample to estimate the true proportion. He wants to be within 5% of the true mean with 95% confidence.
What sample size does he need?