Highway planners decided to make a

main street inWest Lafayette, Indiana, a one-way street. The Lafayette Journal

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?