UNIT 6 PROGRESS CHECK: MCQ PART A (AP STATS)

The manager of a city recreation center wants to estimate the percent of city residents who favor a proposal to build a new dog park. To gather data, the manager will select a random sample of city residents. Which of the following is the most appropriate interval for the manager to use for such an estimate? A one sample z-interval for a population proportion Biologists studying horseshoe crabs want to estimate the percent of crabs in a certain area that are longer than 35 centimeters. The biologists will select a random sample of crabs to measure. Which of the following is the most appropriate method to use for such an estimate? A one sample z-interval for a population proportion Brainpower A random sample of 500 adults living in a large county was selected and 304 adults from the sample indicated that the unemployment rate was of great concern. What is the standard error of the sample proportion pˆ ? Square root( (0.61)(0.39)/500) Alma is estimating the proportion of students in her school district who, in the past month, read at least 1 book. From a random sample of 50 students, she found that 32 students read at least 1 book last month. Assuming all conditions for inference are met, which of the following defines a 90 percent confidence interval for the proportion of all students in her district who read at least 1 book last month? 0.64 +- 1.645 (square root( (0.64)(0.36)/50 A town council wants to estimate the proportion of residents who are in favor of a proposal to upgrade the computers in the town library. A random sample of 100 residents was selected, and 97 of those selected indicated that they were in favor of the proposal. Is it appropriate to assume that the sampling distribution of the sample proportion is approximately normal? No, because the sample is not large enough to satisfy the normality conditions. A marketing representative wants to estimate the proportion of people in a state who like the new design on the packaging of a certain cleaning product. The representative interviewed 100 people at a certain supermarket, and 82 people indicated that they liked the new design. Have the conditions for creating a confidence interval for the population proportion be