Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Interval
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Based on data from USA Today, tax returns include an option of designating $3 for presidential election campaigns, and it does not cots the taxpayer anything to make that designation. In a simple random sample of 250 taxpayer returns from 1976, 27.6% of the returns designated the $3 for the campaign. In a simple random of 300 recent returns, 7.3% of the returns designated the $3 for the campaign.
Construct a 98% confidence interval estimate for the difference of the percentages of returns designating the $3 for the campaign in 1976 and that of the recent returns. What conclusion does the confidence interval suggest?
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The solution provides step by step method for the calculation of confidence interval and testing of hypothesis. Formula for the calculation and Interpretations of the results are also included.
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Based on data from USA Today, tax returns include an option of designating $3 for presidential election campaigns, and it does not cots the taxpayer anything to make that designation. In a simple random sample of 250 taxpayer returns from 1976, 27.6% of the returns designated the $3 for the campaign. In a simple random of 300 recent returns, 7.3% of the returns designated the $3 for the campaign.
Construct a 98% confidence interval estimate for the difference of the percentages of returns designating the $3 for the campaign in 1976 and that of the recent returns. What conclusion does the confidence interval suggest?
Answer
98% confidence interval is given by,
Confidence Interval Estimate
of the Difference Between Two Proportions
Data
Confidence Level 98%
Intermediate Calculations
Z Value -2.3263
Std. Error of the Diff. between two Proportions 0.0320
Interval Half Width 0.0745
Confidence Interval
Interval Lower Limit 0.1285
Interval Upper Limit 0.2775
Since the confidence interval does not include zero, we can conclude that there is significant difference ...
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