Question

А Campus athletics is interested in the proportion of registered students living on campus who play basketball recreationally during the semester. They take a random sample of 198 registered students listed as living in campus housing and ask each whether or not they do so. A 95% confidence interval is correctly calculated from this data as (0.12, 0.18). Which of the following is the correct interpretation of this confidence interval ?
a. None of these are correct.
b. We are 95% confident that the proportion of the 198 sampled students that actually play basketball is between 0.12 and 0.18
c. We are 95% confident that, among the population of students that play basketball recreationally, the proportion who live on campus is between 0.12 and 0.18.
d. The sample proportion of on-campus students that play basketball will be between 0.12 and 0.18 in 95% of samples of size 198

Answer 1

Answer:

c. We are 95% confident that, among the population of students that play basketball recreationally, the proportion who live on campus is between 0.12 and 0.18.

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the question, it is mentioned that there is 95% confidence interval and it is calculated (0.12,0.18)

So the correct interpretation is that they are 95% confident that the students who play basketballs the proportion should lies between 0.12 and 0.12

So, the option C is correct

The rest of the options are wrong