Question

A newspaper article stated that the US Supreme Court received 812 letters from around the country on the subject of whether to ban cameras from the courtroom. Of these 812 letters, 800 expressed the opinion that cameras should be banned. A statistics student was going to use this sample information to conduct a test of significance of whether more than 95% of all American adults feel that cameras should be banned from the courtroom. What would you tell this student

Answer 1

a)This is a large enough sample to provide an accurate estimate of the American public's opinion on the issue.