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20B Submitted by bayarboldi@yahoo.com on 3/24/2012 10:17:44 PM Points Awarded 14 Points Missed 0 Percentage 100% Younger people use online instant messaging (IM) more often than older people. A random sample of IM users found that 73 of the 158 people in the sample aged 18 to 27 said they used IM more often than email. In the 28 to 39 age group, 26 of 143 people used IM more often than email. Give a 95% confidence interval for the difference between the proportions of IM users in these age groups who use IM more often than email. Follow the four-step process as illustrated in Examples 20.1 and 20.2. 1. STATE: Among IM users, how large is the difference between the proportions of 18-to-27-year-olds and 28-to-39-year-olds who use IM more often than email? PLAN: Let p1 (for 18-to-27-year-olds) and p2 (for 28-to-39-year-olds) be these proportions. Describe the plan of your inference. A. Compute 95% confidence intervals for p1 and for p2. B. Compute a 95% confidence interval for p1 / p2. C. Compute a 95% confidence interval for pˆ1 − pˆ2. D. Compute a 95% confidence interval for p1 − p2. We give a 95% confidence interval for p1 − p2. Right Points Earned: 1/1 Correct Answer: D Your Response: D 2. SOLVE: Do the samples satisfy the conditions for using large sample methods? A. Yes B. No Both of our samples satisfy the conditions for using large-sample methods. Right Points Earned: 1/1 Correct Answer: A Your Response: A 3. SOLVE (continue): Give a 95% large sample confidence interval for p1 − p2. A. 0.1764 to 0.3762 B. 0.1800 to 0.3804 C. 0.2561 to 0.3643 D. 0.2295 to 0.3309 The sample proportions are pˆ1 = 73 / 158 = 0.4620 and pˆ2 = 26 / 143 =0.1818, and the 95% confidence interval is pˆ1 − pˆ2 ± 1.96 √ pˆ1 (1 − pˆ1) + pˆ2 (1 − pˆ2) = 0.2802 ± 0.1002 = 0.1800 to 0.3804. 158 143 Right Points Earned: 1/1 Correct

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