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In one study of smokers who tried to quit smoking with nicotine patch therapy, 30 were smoking after one year of treatment while 100 were not. We are interested in the true proportion of those that were still smoking after one year of treatment. a) What parameter are we estimating? p b) What is the point estimate of that parameter? c) What is a success for this problem? still smoking d) Find the margin of error for a 95% confidence interval, rounded to the 4th. e) Round to the fourth. We are 95% confident that the true proportion of those that were still smoking after one year of treatment is between and

In one study of smokers who tried to quit smoking with nicotine patch therapy, 30 were smoking after one year of treatment while 100 were not. We are interested in the true proportion of those that were still smoking after one year of treatment. a) What parameter are we estimating? p b) What is the point estimate of that parameter? c) What is a success for this problem? still smoking d) Find the margin of error for a 95% confidence interval, rounded to the 4th. e) Round to the fourth. We are 95% confident that the true proportion of those that were still smoking after one year of treatment is between and

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018
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In one study of smokers who tried to quit smoking with nicotine patch therapy, 30 were smoking after one year of treatment while 100 were not. We are interested in the true proportion of those that were still smoking after one year of treatment. a) What parameter are we estimating? p b) What is the point estimate of that parameter? ô c) What is a success for this problem? still smoking d) Find the margin of error for a 95% confidence interval, rounded to the 4th. e) Round to the fourth. We are 95% confident that the true proportion of those that were still smoking after one year of treatment is between and
Transcribed Image Text:In one study of smokers who tried to quit smoking with nicotine patch therapy, 30 were smoking after one year of treatment while 100 were not. We are interested in the true proportion of those that were still smoking after one year of treatment. a) What parameter are we estimating? p b) What is the point estimate of that parameter? ô c) What is a success for this problem? still smoking d) Find the margin of error for a 95% confidence interval, rounded to the 4th. e) Round to the fourth. We are 95% confident that the true proportion of those that were still smoking after one year of treatment is between and
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