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Chapter 5: Q4CQQ (page 195)

Loose ChangeUSA Todayreported that 40% of people surveyed planned to use accumulatedloose change for paying bills. The margin of error was given as \( \pm \)3.1 percentage points.Identify the confidence interval that corresponds to that information.

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The confidence interval that corresponds to the provided information is 36.9% < p < 43.1%.

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01

Given information

The percentage of people who planned to use accumulated loose change for paying bills is 40%.

The margin of error is \( \pm 3.1\) percentage points.

02

Compute the confidence interval

From the given information, the following points can be concluded:

The proportion of people who planned to use accumulated loose change for paying bills is\(\hat p = 0.40\).

The margin of error is\(E = 0.031\).

The confidence interval is computed as follows:

\(\begin{array}{c}\left( {\hat p - E,\hat p + E} \right) = \left( {0.40 - 0.031,0.40 + 0.031} \right)\\ = \left( {0.369,0.431} \right)\end{array}\)

Therefore, the confidence interval is36.9% < p < 43.1%.

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