A computer company wants to determine the proportion of defective computer chips from a day’s production. A quality control specialist takes a random sample of 100 chips from the day’s production and determines that there were 12 defective chips. He wants to construct a 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of defective chips from the day’s production. Are the conditions for inference met?
At a local college, an admissions officer wants to survey the incoming class of 500 first-year students concerning their preference of major. The officer randomly selects 100 of them to complete the survey, and finds that 45 are planning to major in liberal arts. The admissions officer uses the data to construct a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of first-year students who are planning on majoring in liberal arts. Are the conditions for inference met?
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