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According to a Gallup poll about gun ownership, in theyear 2016, 270 out of 600 (45%) U.S. households answered “yes” tothe question: “Do you have a gun in your home?”.

a. List the requirements for constructing a confidenceinterval for a proportion and show how the requirements are met forthis problem.

b. Construct a 95% confidence interval for theproportion of households who own a gun in the year2016.

c. Interpret your confidence interval in part “c”. (I am____% confident that………).

d. Sample Size: A politician wants to know if theproportion of U.S. households who own a gun is on the rise. Whatsize sample should be obtained if the politician wants an estimatewithin 3 percentage points of the true proportion with 95%confidence if he uses the 2016 estimate of 37.7% (use formula pg.401)?

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athe requirements for constructing a confidence intervalfor a proportionhow the requirements are met for thisproblem1 The data must be sampled randomlyThis is not specifically    See Answer
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