Construct a 99 confidence interval for the proportion of


Question: A poll on www.espn.com asked people who would they most want to play a round of golf with. The choices mentioned were Michael Jordan, Ben Roethlisberger, Justin Timberlake, and Tiger Woods. Fiftyfive percent of the respondents chose Tiger Woods (33% chose Michael Jordan, and 6% chose Roethlisberger and Timberlake each). Although the sample is not a random sample, assume that the data came from a random sample of 450 www.espn.com readers.

a. What is the value of the point estimate of the proportion of all www.espn.com readers who would choose Tiger Woods when given the aforementioned set of choices?

b. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the proportion of all www.espn.com readers who would choose Tiger Woods when given the aforementioned set of choices.

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