Answer to Question #82646 in Statistics and Probability for Deep Neogy

Question #82646

Of 535 broiler chickens purchased from various kinds of food stores in different regions of a country and tested for types of bacteria that cause food-borne illnesses, 23% were infected with a particular bacterium.
a) Construct a 95% confidence interval.
b) Explain what your confidence interval says about chicken sold in the country.
c) A government spokesperson claimed that the sample size was too small, relative to the billions of chickens slaughtered each year, to generalize. Is this criticism valid?

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