Question

A poll conducted the day before the student- body presidential election at a midwestern university showed that 53.9 percent favored Mario, the rest favoring Yin Ling. The margin of error was 4.2 percentage points. Should Yin Ling have conceded the election?

Answer 1

Answer:

No

Step-by-step explanation:

The confidence interval of the percentage of people that favored Mario = number of votes favoring Mario ± Margin of error

The confidence interval = 53.9% ± 4.2% = (49.7%, 58.1%)

This means that between 49.7% to 58.1% of the people would have voted for Mario.

Hence Yin Ling would not have won the election, since there is a probability that 50% would have voted for Mario