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Margin of Error and Confidence Level

Authored by Anthony Clark

Mathematics

11th Grade

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Margin of Error and Confidence Level
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A study by the department of education in a certain state found that there was a mean SAT score of 534 with a margin of error of 20.

Create a confidence interval for the true mean.

(534, 554)

(514, 534)

(514, 554)

2.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A study by the department of education in a certain state found that there was a mean SAT score of 534 with a margin of error of 20.

Which score would fall outside the confidence interval?

505

530

550

553

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A survey estimates that 45% of voters favor candidate A with a margin of error of 4%. What is the confidence interval for the proportion of voters who favor candidate A?

(0.41, 0.49)

(0.39, 0.51)

(0.43, 0.47)

(0.45, 0.49)

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

If the confidence interval for a population mean is (20, 40) and the margin of error is 10, what is the sample mean?

20

30

40

50

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A sample of 473 American households reveal that 74% own 2 or more TVs. 

The margin of error is ± 2%\pm\ 2\% . What statement can be concluded?

95% of all American households own 2 or more TVs.

We can be 95% confident that between 72% and 76% of all American households own 2 or more TVs.

We can be 95% confident that 74% of American households own 2 or more TVs.

In our sample, somewhere between 72% and 76% of American households own 2 or more TVs.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A random sample of 692 adults revealed that 54% stream Netflix. If p hat = .54, what is the margin of error in this sample?

± 95%\pm\ 95\%  

± .036%\pm\ .036\%  

± 1.9%\pm\ 1.9\%  

± 3.8%\pm\ 3.8\%  

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A sample size of n = 64 is drawn from a population whose standard deviation is σ = 5.6.


Find the margin of error for a 99% confidence interval for µ.

1.799

1.798

1.803

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