The Gallup Poll interviews 1600 people. Of these, 18% say that they jog regularly. The news report

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The Gallup Poll interviews 1600 people. Of these, 18% say that they jog regularly. The news report adds: “The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points at a 95% confidence level.” You can safely conclude that

(a) 95% of all Gallup Poll samples like this one give answers within ±3% of the true population value.

(b) the percent of the population who jog is certain to be between 15% and 21%.

(c) 95% of the population jog between 15% and 21% of the time.

(d) we can be 95% confident that the sample proportion is captured by the confidence interval.

(e) if Gallup took many samples, 95% of them would find that 18% of the people in the sample jog.

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The Practice Of Statistics

ISBN: 9781464108730

5th Edition

Authors: Daren S. Starnes, Josh Tabor

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