Question

g A radio station’s poll found that 68% of the respondents in a random sample of listeners plan to see a live music show in the next month. A 95% confidence interval for the population proportion was 0.68 ± 0.04. What is the correct interpretation of the 95% confidence interval? We can be 95% confident that 68% of all listeners will see a live music show in the next month. There is a 95% probability that between 64% and 72% of the listeners will see a live music show in the next month. There is a 5% chance that less than 64% or more than 72% of listeners will see a live music show in the next month. We can be 95% confident that the true proportion of listeners who will see a live music show in the next month is between 64% and 72%. If we repeatedly took samples of the same size from listeners of this radio station, approximately 95% of those samples would have between 64% and 72% of the sample going to see a live music show in the next month.

Answer 1

We can be 95% confident that the true proportion of listeners who will see a live music show in the next month is between 64% and 72%.

Explanation:

x% confidence interval:

A confidence interval is built from a sample, has bounds a and b, and has a confidence level of x%. It means that we are x% confident that the population mean is between a and b.

A 95% confidence interval for the population proportion was 0.68 ± 0.04.

We are 95% sure that the true population proportion is between 0.68 - 0.04 = 0.64 and 0.68 + 0.04 = 0.72.

Thus, the correct answer is:

We can be 95% confident that the true proportion of listeners who will see a live music show in the next month is between 64% and 72%.