A newsgroup is interested in constructing a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of all Americans who are in favor of a new Green initiative. Of the 568 randomly selected Americans
surveyed, 369 were in favor of the initiative. Round answers to 4 decimal places where possible.
a. With 90% confidence the proportion of all Americans who favor the new Green initiative is
between
and
b. If many groups of 568 randomly selected Americans were surveyed, then a different
confidence interval would be produced from each group. About 90 percent of these
confidence intervals will contain the true population proportion of Americans who favor the
Green initiative and about 10 percent will not contain the true population proportion.