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AP Statistics 3.4: CI Width and Sample Size

Relate confidence level, margin of error, interval width, and sample size by tracking how each change affects a proportion confidence interval.

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Effective Fall 2025
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AP Statistics

3.4.C—Identify the relationships among sample size, confidence interval width, confidence level, and margin of error… question 1

To increase business, the owner of a restaurant is running a promotion in which a customer's bill can be randomly selected to receive a discount. When a customer's bill is printed, a program in the cash register randomly determines whether the customer will receive a discount on the bill. The program was written to generate a discount with a probability of 0.2, that is, giving 20 percent of the bills a discount in the long run. However, the owner is concerned that the program has a mistake that results in the program not generating the intended long-run proportion of 0.2.
The owner selected a random sample of bills and found that only 15 percent of them received discounts. A confidence interval for p, the proportion of bills that will receive a discount in the long run, is 0.15±0.060.15 \pm 0.06. All conditions for inference were met.

Determine the value of the margin of error based on the second sample of bills that would be used to compute an interval for p with the same confidence level as that of the original interval.

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