Confidence interval for a population proportion
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A genetic experiment with peas resulted in one sample of offspring that consisted of 438 green peas and 159 yellow peas.
A. 90 % Confidence intervals to estimate the percentage of yellow peas would be?
B. It was expected that 25% of the offspring peas would be yellow. Given that percentage of offspring yellow peas is not 25%, do the results contradict expectations?
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90 % Confidence intervals to estimate
A genetic experiment with peas resulted in one sample of offspring that consisted of 438 green peas and 159 yellow peas.
A. 90 % Confidence intervals to estimate the percentage of yellow peas would be?
This is a 90% confidence interval for , the population proportion.
The formula for a confidence interval for is:
The values of ...
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