We don’t like one-way streets. Highway planners decided to make a main street inWest Lafayette, Indiana, a one-way street. The Lafayette Journal Chapter 2 Exercises 31 and Courier took a one-day poll by inviting readers to call a telephone number to record their comments. The next day, the paper reported:

Journal and Courier readers overwhelmingly prefer two-way traffic flow in West Lafayette’s Village area to one-way streets. By nearly a 7-1 margin, callers to the newspaper’s Express Yourself opinion line on Wednesday complained about the one-way streets that have been in place since May.

Of the 98 comments received, all but 14 said no to one-way.

(a) What population do you think the newspaper wants information about?

(b) Is the proportion of this population who favor one-way streets almost certainly larger or smaller than the proportion 14/98 in the sample? Why?