Chapter 9: Q. 83 (page 543)
According to an article in Newsweek, the natural ratio of girls to boys is . In China, the birth ratio is (46.7% girls). Suppose you don’t believe the reported figures of the percent of girls born in China. You conduct a study. In this study, you count the number of girls and boys born in randomly chosen recent births. There are girls and boys born of the . Based on your study, do you believe that the percent of girls born in China is?
Short Answer
The confidence level shows that the proportion of Chinese girls born falls between and .