14. Different Priorities As we approached the end of 2017, Democrats and Republicans were split about our nation’s top priorities.18 Pew Research Center surveyed 651 adults described as “Republican or leaning Republican”

and 726 adults described as “Democrat or leaning Democrat” and recorded the percentage of the respondents who listed “top priority”

for the various issues shown in the following table.

a. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference in the proportion of Republicans and Democrats listing the economy as a top priority.

b. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference in the proportion of Republicans and Democrats listing Social Security as a top priority.

c. Refer to parts a and

b. Do the data indicate a difference in the proportions of Republicans and Democrats listing either the economy or Social Security as a top priority? Explain your answer

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Partisans differ over priority Trump and Congress should give to immigration, poverty, race relations % rating each a top priority among... Dem/Lean Dem Rep/Lean Rep Terrorism 72 82 Economy 69 79 Education 59 77 Jobs 65 71 Health care costs Social Security Medicare 63 69 57 99 59 60 62 Poor and needy 40 72 Race relations Reducing crime Environment 45 69 51 58 35 72 Budget deficit 46 63 Military 25. 67 Tax reform Immigration Influence of lobbyists Global trade Climate change 15 37 51 31 59 40 44 39 42 62