AQA S3 2006 June — Question 1

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2006
SessionJune
TopicProbability Definitions
TypeBasic probability calculation

1 A council claims that 80 per cent of households are generally satisfied with the services it provides. A random sample of 250 households shows that 209 are generally satisfied with the council's provision of services.
  1. Construct an approximate \(95 \%\) confidence interval for the proportion of households that are generally satisfied with the council's provision of services.
  2. Hence comment on the council's claim.