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Confidence Levels for Proportions

Subject Area
Math: Statistics: Confidence Intervals
Level
9-12
Activity Time
45 Minutes
Software
TI-Nspire™ CX
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS
TI Calculator
TI-Nspire™ CX series
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
TI-Nspire Version
5.0
Resource Types
Lessons
Format
TNS

Confidence Levels for Proportions

Activity Overview

This activity involves generating a confidence interval for a population proportion from a random sample of size 100 and considering how certain one can be that this interval contains the actual population proportion.

Objectives

  • Students will interpret a confidence level as the degree of confidence in the process used to produce an interval that will contain the true population proportion.
  • Students will recognize that as the confidence level increases, on average the confidence interval increases in width.

Subject Area
Math: Statistics: Confidence Intervals
Level
9-12
Activity Time
45 Minutes
Software
TI-Nspire™ CX
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS
TI Calculator
TI-Nspire™ CX series
TI-Nspire™ CX CAS/CX II CAS
TI-Nspire Version
5.0
Resource Types
Lessons
Format
TNS
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