As the automobile accident rate increases, insurers are forced to increase their premium rates. Companies such as
Question:
As the automobile accident rate increases, insurers are forced to increase their premium rates. Companies such as Allstate have recently been running a campaign they hope will result in fewer accidents by their policyholders. For each six-month period that a customer goes without an accident, Allstate will reduce the customer’s premium rate by a certain percentage.
Companies like Allstate have reason to be concerned about driving habits, based on a survey conducted by Drive for Life, a safety group sponsored by Volvo of North America, in which 1,100 drivers were surveyed.
Among those surveyed, 74% said that careless or aggressive driving was the biggest threat on the road.
One-third of the respondents said that cell phone usage by other drivers was the driving behavior that annoyed them the most.
Based on these data, assuming that the sample was a simple random sample, construct and interpret a 95%
confidence interval estimate for the true proportion in the population of all drivers who are annoyed by cell phone users.
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Business Statistics A Decision Making Approach
ISBN: 9780136121015
8th Edition
Authors: David F. Groebner, Patrick W. Shannon, Phillip C. Fry, Kent D. Smith