An agriculture scientist purchased 530 broiler chickens from various kinds of food stores and tested them for salmonella. The scientist found that 80 broiler chickens were infected with salmonella.
(a) What is the population under study? What is the attribute?
(b) Estimate the true proportion broiler chickens that were infected with salmonella.
(c) Construct a 90% confidence interval for the true proportion of broiler chickens infected with salmonella in.
(d) A consumer group claims that 16% of the boiler chickens sold is infected with salmonella. What would you conclude about this claim based on (c)?
An agriculture scientist purchased 530 broiler chickens from various kinds of food stores and tested them...
Of 565 samples of seafood purchased from various kinds of food stores in different regions of a country and genetically compared to standard gene fragments that can identify the species, 51% were mislabeled. a) Construct a 99% confidence interval for the proportion of all seafood sold in the country that is mislabeled or mislabeled or misidentified. b) Explain what your confidence interval says about seafood sold in the country. c) A government spokesperson claimed that the sample size was too...
A consumer advocacy group published a study of labeling of seafood sold in three U.S. states. The group purchased 207 pieces of seafood from various kinds of food stores and restaurants in the three states and genetically compared the pieces to standard gene fragments that can identify the species. The study found that 14 of the 26 "red snapper" packages tested were a different kind of fish. Assume that the study used a simple random sample. Complete parts a through...