A survey of 2307 adults in a certain large country aged 18 and older conducted by a reputable polling organization found that 403 have donated blood in the past two years. Complete parts (a) through (c) below.
donated blood in the past two years.
(Round to three decimal places as needed.)
(b) Verify that the requirements for constructing a confidence interval about
The sample can be assumed to be a simple random sample, the value of
(Round to three decimal places as needed.)
(c) Construct and interpret a
A. We are
B. There is a
Step 1 :A survey of 2307 adults in a certain large country aged 18 and older conducted by a reputable polling organization found that 403 have donated blood in the past two years. The sample proportion of adults who have donated blood in the past two years is given as
Step 2 :We need to verify that the requirements for constructing a confidence interval about
Step 3 :We are asked to construct a 90% confidence interval for the population proportion of adults in the country who have donated blood in the past two years. We can use the formula for the confidence interval for a proportion, which is
Step 4 :Substituting the given values into the formula, we get the lower and upper bounds of the confidence interval as 0.162 and 0.188 respectively.
Step 5 :