In a survey of 894 respondents with salaries below 100,000 per year, 367 indicated that the primary reason for staying on their job was interesting job responsibilities.
A) Construct a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of all workers whose primary reason for staying on their job was interesting job responsibilities.
B) Interpret the interval constructed in part A.
Business Statistics ? invloving confidence interval...PLEASE HELP?
Let ^p = 367/894 and n = 100000 in this case.
A).
Since n^p = 100000*(367/894) = 41051.45414 and n(1-^p) = 100000*[1-(367/894)] = 58948.54586 are both greater than 5, then n= 100000 is considered to be large and hence we can use the following confidence interval formula in this case.
(1-∞)% = 95%
1-∞ = 0.95
-∞ = 0.95-1
-∞ = -0.05
∞ = 0.05
∞/2 = 0.05/2 = 0.025
A 95% confidence interval for the proportion of all workers whose primary reason for staying on their job was interesting job reponsibilities is
= {^p(+-) z∞/2√[^p(1-^p)]/(n-1)}
={(367/894) (+-) z[(0.05)/2] * √[(367/894)*(1-(367/894))]/(100000-1)}
= {(367/894) (+-) z0.025*√[(367/894)*(1-(367/894)]/99999}
= {(367/894) (+-)1.96*√[(367/894)*(1-(367/894))/99999...
= [0.410514541(+-) 0.00304901151]
= [0.407465529, 0.413563552] OR
= [0.407465529*100%, 0.413563552*100%]
= [40.7%, 41.4%]
B). The above interval indicates that we are 95% confident that truly between around 40.7% and 41.4% of all workers whose primary reason for staying on their job was interesting job responsibilities.
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