SOLUTION: In a random sample of 200 students at Eastern Elite University, it was found that 106 had studied overseas. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the percentage of all EEU studen

Question 1186969: In a random sample of 200 students at Eastern Elite University, it was found that 106 had studied overseas. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the percentage of all EEU students who have studied overseas.
Round your answers to the nearest tenth of a percent.
Answer: We are 99% confident that between _% and _% of all EEU students have studied overseas.
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
p hat is 0.53 (106/200)
99%half-interval is 2.576*sqrt(0.53*0.47/200)
=0.0909
interval is (0.439, 0.629) or (43.9%, 62.9%)
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