CAIE S2 2023 November — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2023
SessionNovember
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeValidity of normal model

2 In a survey of 300 randomly chosen adults in Rickton, 134 said that they exercised regularly. This information was used to calculate an \(\alpha \%\) confidence interval for the proportion of adults in Rickton who exercise regularly. The upper bound of the confidence interval was found to be 0.487 , correct to 3 significant figures. Find the value of \(\alpha\) correct to the nearest integer.