Question

Out of 500 people sampled, 395 preferred Candidate A. Based on this, estimate what proportion of the voting population (p) prefers Candidate A.

Use a 90% confidence level, and give your answers as decimals, to three places.

< p

Answer 1

0.79

Explanation:

When you put 395 over 500, it comes out to 0.79, so seventy-nine percent of the voting population prefers Candidate A.