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  • Calculate a 95% confidence interval.
  • Interpret a 95% confidence interval in context.

Work through this activity to learn how to calculate a 95% confidence interval using the margin of error. Be sure to review the feedback to learn from your mistakes. You have three attempts. Canvas will record your highest score.

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Submitted Mar 19 at 10:54am

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Suppose that a random sample of 100 part-time college students is 68% female. In this activity, we calculate the 95% confidence interval for the proportion of all part-time college students that are female.

Recall that the 95% confidence interval is:
sample proportion ±± 2(SE) where SE is the standard error (or standard deviation).

Question 1 2 / 2 pts

First we need to find the standard error.

In the previous module, we met the formula for calculating the standard deviation of the distribution of sampling proportions.

????=??(1???)?????????SE=p(1?p)n

But we don’t know the population proportion, p. So to calculate the standard deviation (a.k.a. the standard error) we estimate the standard error with the sample proportion ???p^.

????????(1????)?????????SE?p^(1?p^)n

In this scenario we are given that that a random sample of 100 part-time college students is 68% female. So the sample proportion of females is ???=0.68p^=0.68 and ??=100n=100.

Calculate the standard error. Round to three decimal places.

Correct.

????????(1????)?????????=0.68(1?0.68)100???????????SE?p^(1?p^)n=0.68(1?0.68)100

=0.046647615…?0.047=0.046647615…?0.047

Question 22 / 2 pts

Recall that at 95% confidence level the margin of error is calculated as follows.

margin of error = 2(SE).

What is the margin of error? Do not round.

Correct.

margin of error = 2(0.047) = 0.094

Question 32 / 2 pts

95% confidence interval = sample proportion ±± margin of error

Calculate the 95% confidence interval.

What is the smallest number from the confidence interval? Enter your answer as a proportion (a decimal number) NOT a percentage. Do not round.

Correct. sample proportion ±± margin of error

95% confidence interval = 0.68±±0.094

Smallest number = 0.68 – 0.094 = 0.586

Question 42 / 2 pts

What is the largest number in your confidence interval? Enter your answer as a proportion (decimal number) NOT a percentage. If necessary, round to three decimal places.

Correct. sample proportion ±± margin of error

95% confidence interval = 0.68±±0.094

Largest number = 0.68 + 0.094 = 0.774

Question 5Not yet graded / 2 pts

State the confidence interval. Then convert the values to percentages and interpret the confidence interval in context.

0.586 < P< 0.774 58.6% to 77.4% % is a confidence and the proportion of smaller students are (females ) so the number is between 50.6% and 77.4%

So I need help with question 5 (attached) I have provided the rest of the questions because the questions are related