A government\'s congress has 652 members, of which 108 are women. An alien lands
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Question
A government's congress has 652 members, of which 108 are women. An alien lands near the congress building and treats the members of congress as as a random sample of the human race. He reports to his superiors that a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of the human race that is female has a lower bound of 0.137 and an upper bound of 0.193. What is wrong with the alien's approach to estimating the proportion of the human race that is female?
Choose the correct answer below.
A.
The confidence level is too high.
B.
The sample is not a simple random sample.
C.
The sample size is too small.
D.
The sample size is more than 5% of the population size.
Explanation / Answer
As Given
A government's congress has 652 members, of which 108 are women
since In Government congress only working pepoles were present so we cant consider them as random sample as well Human population is too high so sample size 652 is too low
hence
B.
The sample is not a simple random sample.
C.
The sample size is too small.
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