CAIE S2 2019 June — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2019
SessionJune
TopicData representation
TypeDescribe or suggest sampling method

6 Ramesh plans to carry out a survey in order to find out what adults in his town think about local sports facilities. He chooses a random sample from the adult members of a tennis club and gives each of them a questionnaire.
  1. Give a reason why this will not result in Ramesh having a random sample of adults who live in the town.
  2. Describe briefly a valid method that Ramesh could use to choose a random sample of adults in the town.
    Ramesh now uses a valid method to choose a random sample of 350 adults from the town. He finds that 47 adults think that the local sports facilities are good.
  3. Calculate an approximate \(90 \%\) confidence interval for the proportion of all adults in the town who think that the local sports facilities are good.
  4. Ramesh calculates a confidence interval whose width is 1.25 times the width of this \(90 \%\) confidence interval. Ramesh's new interval is an \(x \%\) confidence interval. Find the value of \(x\).
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