The Paralyzed Veterans of America is a philanthropic organization that relies on contributions. They send free mailing labels and greeting cards to potential donors on their list and ask for a voluntary contribution. To test a new campaign, they recently sent letters to a random sample of 100,000 potential donors and received 4781 donations.
(a) Give a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of those from their entire mailing list who may donate.
(b) A staff member thinks that the true rate is 4.5%. Given the confidence interval you found, do you find that rate plausible?
(a) What is the 95% confidence interval?
The 95% confidence interval is from % to %.
(Round to two decimal places as needed.)
(b) Given the confidence interval you found, is the proposed true rate, 4.5%, plausible?
The proposed true rate \boxed{} plausible because the confidence interval \boxed{} 4.5%