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Fundamentals of Statistics | 4th Edition | ISBN: 9780321838704 | Authors: Michael Sullivan,III
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Infidelity According to menstuff.org, 22% of married men have “strayed” at least once during their married lives.

(a) Describe how you might go about administering a survey to assess the accuracy of this statement.

(b) A survey of 500 married men results in 122 indicating that they have “strayed” at least once during their married life. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of married men who have strayed. Use this interval to assess the accuracy of the statement made by menstuff.org.

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QUESTION:

Problem 24AYU

Problem

Infidelity According to menstuff.org, 22% of married men have “strayed” at least once during their married lives.

(a) Describe how you might go about administering a survey to assess the accuracy of this statement.

(b) A survey of 500 married men results in 122 indicating that they have “strayed” at least once during their married life. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of married men who have strayed. Use this interval to assess the accuracy of the statement made by menstuff.org.

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Step 1:  

Given ,22% of married men have “strayed” at least once during their married lives.

a). The survey would need to be clearly anonymous and untraceable. In addition, the questions need to be phrased so as to not sound judgmental.

    = 22% = 0.22 and 1 - = 0.78

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