Chapter 11: Q.14 (page 480)

Smartphone Ownership. Refer to Problem 13 .
a. Find a $99 %$ confidence interval for the difference, $p_{1} - p_{2}$ , between the proportions of men and women smartphone owners.
b. Interpret your answer in part (a) in terms of the difference in percentages of men and women smartphone owners.

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a). The gap in the proportion of men and women who own smartphones is somewhere between $0.0062$ and $0.1142$ , according to $99 %$ confidence.

b). One can be $99 %$ certain that the gap in smartphone ownership between men and women is between $0.62 %$ and $11.42 %$ .

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Part (a) Step 1: Given Information

Population $1$ Men: role="math" localid="1651421541742" $n_{1} = 1029,$

$x_{1} = 607$ .

Population $1$ Women: $n_{2} = 1223,$

$x_{2} = 648$ .

Part (a) Step 2: Explanation

A significance level of $α$ ,

To find $z_{α / 2}$ using table II.

Significance level is $1 %$ .

i.e. $α = 0.01$ .

Using table II,

$z_{α / 2} = z_{0.01 / 2}$

$= z_{0.005}$

$= 2.58 .$

The endpoints for the confidence interval of $p_{1} - p_{2}$ are -

$({\hat{p}}_{1} - {\hat{p}}_{2}) \pm z_{α / 2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{{\hat{p}}_{1} (1 - {\hat{p}}_{1})}{n_{1}} + \frac{{\hat{p}}_{2} (1 - {\hat{p}}_{2})}{n_{2}}}$ $\Rightarrow CI = (0.590 - 0.5298) \pm 2.58 \sqrt{\frac{0.590 (1 - 0.590)}{1029} + \frac{0.5298 (1 - 0.5298)}{1223}}$ $\Rightarrow CI = 0.0602 \pm (2.58 \times 0.209)$

$\Rightarrow CI = 0.0602 \pm 0.0540$

$\Rightarrow CI = 0.0062 to 0.1142$

Part (b) Step 2: Given Information

Population $1$ Men: $n_{1} = 1029,$

$x_{1} = 607$ .

Population $1$ Women: $n_{2} = 1223,$

$x_{2} = 648$ .

Part (b) Step 2: Explanation

The endpoints for the confidence interval of $p_{1} - p_{2}$ are -

({\hat{p}}_{1} - {\hat{p}}_{2}) \pm z_{α / 2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{{\hat{p}}_{1} (1 - {\hat{p}}_{1})}{n_{1}} + \frac{{\hat{p}}_{2} (1 - {\hat{p}}_{2})}{n_{2}}}

$\Rightarrow CI = 0.0062 to 0.1142$

\Rightarrow CI = 0.62 % to 11.42 %

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Smartphone Ownership. Refer to Problem 13 .
a. Find a $99 %$ confidence interval for the difference, $p_{1} - p_{2}$ , between the proportions of men and women smartphone owners.
b. Interpret your answer in part (a) in terms of the difference in percentages of men and women smartphone owners.

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a. Find a $99 %$ confidence interval for the difference, $p_{1} - p_{2}$ , between the proportions of men and women smartphone owners.
b. Interpret your answer in part (a) in terms of the difference in percentages of men and women smartphone owners.