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Alexeev081 [22]
2 years ago
8

An article in The Engineer (Redesign for Suspect Wiring," June 1990) reported the results of an investigation into wiring errors

on commercial transport aircraft that may produce faulty information to the flight crew. Such a wiring error may have been responsible for the crash Of a British Midland Airways aircraft in January 1989 by causing the pilot to shut down the wrong engine. Of 1600 randomly selected aircraft, eight were found to have wiring errors that could display incorrect information to the flight crew.
Required:
a. Find a 99% confidence interval on the proportion of aircraft that have such wiring errors. Round your answers to 4 decimal places.
b. Suppose we use the information in this example to provide a preliminary estimate of p. How large a sample would be required to produce an estimate of p that we are 99% confident differs from the true value by at most 0.009?
c. Suppose we did not have a preliminary estimate of p. How large a sample would be required if we wanted to be at least 99% confident that the sample proportion differs from the true proportion by at most 0.009 regardless of the true value of p?
Mathematics
1 answer:
GarryVolchara [31]2 years ago
8 0

Answer:

a) The 99% confidence interval on the proportion of aircraft that have such wiring errors is (0.0005, 0.0095).

b) A sample of 408 is required.

c) A sample of 20465 is required.

Step-by-step explanation:

Question a:

In a sample with a number n of people surveyed with a probability of a success of \pi, and a confidence level of 1-\alpha, we have the following confidence interval of proportions.

\pi \pm z\sqrt{\frac{\pi(1-\pi)}{n}}

In which

z is the zscore that has a pvalue of 1 - \frac{\alpha}{2}.

Of 1600 randomly selected aircraft, eight were found to have wiring errors that could display incorrect information to the flight crew.

This means that n = 1600, \pi = \frac{8}{1600} = 0.005

99% confidence level

So \alpha = 0.01, z is the value of Z that has a pvalue of 1 - \frac{0.01}{2} = 0.995, so Z = 2.575.

The lower limit of this interval is:

\pi - z\sqrt{\frac{\pi(1-\pi)}{n}} = 0.005 - 2.575\sqrt{\frac{0.005*0.995}{1600}} = 0.0005

The upper limit of this interval is:

\pi + z\sqrt{\frac{\pi(1-\pi)}{n}} = 0.005 + 2.575\sqrt{\frac{0.005*0.995}{1600}} = 0.0095

The 99% confidence interval on the proportion of aircraft that have such wiring errors is (0.0005, 0.0095).

b. Suppose we use the information in this example to provide a preliminary estimate of p. How large a sample would be required to produce an estimate of p that we are 99% confident differs from the true value by at most 0.009?

The margin of error is of:

M = z\sqrt{\frac{\pi(1-\pi)}{n}}

A sample of n is required, and n is found for M = 0.009. So

M = z\sqrt{\frac{\pi(1-\pi)}{n}}

0.009 = 2.575\sqrt{\frac{0.005*0.995}{n}}

0.009\sqrt{n} = 2.575\sqrt{0.005*0.995}

\sqrt{n} = \frac{2.575\sqrt{0.005*0.995}}{0.009}

(\sqrt{n})^2 = (\frac{2.575\sqrt{0.005*0.995}}{0.009})^2

n = 407.3

Rounding up:

A sample of 408 is required.

c. Suppose we did not have a preliminary estimate of p. How large a sample would be required if we wanted to be at least 99% confident that the sample proportion differs from the true proportion by at most 0.009 regardless of the true value of p?

Since we have no estimate, we use \pi = 0.5

M = z\sqrt{\frac{\pi(1-\pi)}{n}}

0.009 = 2.575\sqrt{\frac{0.5*0.5}{n}}

0.009\sqrt{n} = 2.575*0.5

\sqrt{n} = \frac{2.575*0.5}{0.009}

(\sqrt{n})^2 = (\frac{2.575*0.5}{0.009})^2

n = 20464.9

Rounding up:

A sample of 20465 is required.

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