Employment drug tests on job applicants by faa

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In 1992, FAA conducted 86,991 pre-employment drug tests on job applicants who were to be engaged in safety and security-related jobs, and found that 1,143 were positive.

a) Construct a 95 percent confidence interval for the population proportion of positive drug tests.

b) Why is the normality assumption not a problem, despite the very small value of p?

Reference no: EM1392323

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