In: Statistics and Probability
2. It is estimated that 20.6% of all adults in
the U.S. are uninsured. You take a random sample of 10 adults from
Sweetwater County.
(a) What is the probability that exactly 4 are uninsured?
(b) What is the probability that none of them are uninsured?
(c) You take another sample of 40 adults from Sweetwater County.
You find that 10 out of these 40 adults are uninsured. When
compared to the national percentage, is this an unusual sample? Why
or why not? Support your conclusion with specific
calculations.
(d) Use the sample proportion from (c), and calculate a 95%
confidence interval for the population proportion, and interpret
the result. What is the population in this case?
(e) If the margin of error needs to be reduced to 2.1%, what is the
needed sample size? Keep the confidence level at
95%.
With 95% confidence we can say that the population proportion of uninsured adults will lie within this interval
Here our population is the Adults in the US
Needed sample size = 1633