CAIE S2 2010 June — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2010
SessionJune
TopicLinear combinations of normal random variables
TypeConfidence interval for single proportion

2 A random sample of \(n\) people were questioned about their internet use. 87 of them had a high-speed internet connection. A confidence interval for the population proportion having a high-speed internet connection is \(0.1129 < p < 0.1771\).
  1. Write down the mid-point of this confidence interval and hence find the value of \(n\).
  2. This interval is an \(\alpha \%\) confidence interval. Find \(\alpha\).