Suppose the adult unemployment rate of a city is 4.8%. If you had taken a survey...
Suppose the adult unemployment rate of a city is 4.8%. If you had taken a survey of 100 adults and constructed a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of unemployed adults, which of the following would have been true?
(A)You have a 95% probability that the interval contains 4.8%
(B) Increasing the sample size would ensure capturing 4.8%
(C)The center of the interval would have been 4.8%
(D)Approximately 95% of similarly constructed intervals would
capture 4.8%
(E)The interval would have contained 4.8%
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