CAIE S2 2017 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2017
SessionNovember
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TopicCentral limit theorem

3 After an election 153 adults, from a random sample of 200 adults, said that they had voted. Using this information, an \(\alpha \%\) confidence interval for the proportion of all adults who voted in the election was found to be 0.695 to 0.835 , both correct to 3 significant figures. Find the value of \(\alpha\), correct to the nearest integer.

3 After an election 153 adults, from a random sample of 200 adults, said that they had voted. Using this information, an $\alpha \%$ confidence interval for the proportion of all adults who voted in the election was found to be 0.695 to 0.835 , both correct to 3 significant figures. Find the value of $\alpha$, correct to the nearest integer.\\

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