Estimating the Difference between Two Population Proportions
Question 4 • CA-Statistics and Probability B
The nutrition supervisor for a school district is considering adding a baked potato bar to the lunch menu for all the high school cafeterias. He wants to determine if there is a difference in the proportion of students who would purchase from the potato bar for two high schools, East and West. The cafeteria manager at each high school randomly surveys 90 students. At East High School, 63 of the students say they would purchase from the potato bar. At West High School, 58 students say they would. Assuming the conditions for inference have been met, what is the 99% confidence interval for the difference in proportion of students from the two schools who would purchase from the potato bar?Find the z-table here.
Answer
A
(0.30 minus 0.36) plus-or-minus 2.58 StartRoot StartFraction 0.30 (1 minus 0.30) Over 90 EndFraction + StartFraction 0.36 (1 minus 0.36) Over 90 EndFraction EndRoot
B
(0.30 minus 0.36) plus-or-minus 2.33 StartRoot StartFraction 0.30 (1 minus 0.30) Over 90 EndFraction + StartFraction 0.36 (1 minus 0.36) Over 90 EndFraction EndRoot
C
(0.70 minus 0.64) plus-or-minus 2.58 StartRoot StartFraction 0.70 (1 minus 0.70) Over 90 EndFraction + StartFraction 0.64 (1 minus 0.64) Over 90 EndFraction EndRoot
D
(0.70 minus 0.64) plus-or-minus 2.33 StartRoot StartFraction 0.70 (1 minus 0.70) Over 90 EndFraction + StartFraction 0.64 (1 minus 0.64) Over 90 EndFraction EndRoot