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A telephone poll of 1000 adult Americans was reported in an issue of Time Magazine. One of the questions asked was "What is the main problem facing the country?" 20% answered "crime". We are interested in the population proportion of adult Americans who feel that crime is the main problem.

a. Define the Random Variables X and P', in words.

b. Which distribution should you use for this problem? Explain your choice.

c. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of adult Americans who feel that crime is the main problem.

i. State the confidence interval.

ii. Sketch the graph.

iii. Calculate the error bound.

d. Suppose we want to lower the sampling error. What is one way to accomplish that?

e. The sampling error given by Yankelovich Partners, Inc. (which conducted the poll) is ± 3%. In 1-3 complete sentences, explain what the ± 3% represents.

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