Question

A government's congress has 464 members, of which 131 are women. An alien lands near the congress building and treats the members of congress as as a random sample of the human race. He reports to his superiors that a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of the human race that is female has a lower bound of 0.242 and an upper bound of 0.324. What is wrong with the alien's approach to estimating the proportion of the human race that is female? Choose the correct answer below. A. The confidence level is too high. B. The sample size is too small. C. The sample size is more than 5% of the population size. D. The sample is not a simple random sample.

Answer 1

Since the alien lands in the congrees and treats them as a sample of the human race the sample is too samll