Constructing a Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion

AP Statistics· difficulty 2/5

A poll about a city's voters surveys only people downtown.

Convenience sample ≠ random sample Bias likely

A z-interval from this sample is:

  • A

    Not valid; the sample isn't random.

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  • B

    Valid since margin of error is small.

  • C

    Valid as long as Large Counts holds.

  • D

    Valid since the sample size is large.

Explanation

The Random condition is required. Convenience samples introduce bias.

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