11. Refer to the accompanying data set of 20 randomly selected presidents. Treat the data as a sample and find the proportion of presidents who were taller than their opponents. Use that result to...

11. Refer to the accompanying data set of 20 randomly selected presidents. Treat the data as a<br>sample and find the proportion of presidents who were taller than their opponents. Use that<br>result to construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population percentage. Based on<br>the result, does it appear that greater height is an advantage for presidential candidates? Why<br>or why not?<br>1 Click the icon to view the table of heights.<br>Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the percentage of presidents who were taller<br>than their opponents.<br>% <p<[<br>(Round to one decimal place as needed.)<br>%<br>If greater height was an advantage, then taller candidates should have won<br>(1)<br>50% of the elections. In this case, greater height (2)<br>to<br>be an advantage for presidential candidates because (3).<br>1: President and Opponent Heights (cm)<br>PRESIDENT<br>HEIGHT<br>HEIGHT OPP<br>Harrison<br>168<br>180<br>Wilson<br>180<br>182<br>Pierce<br>178<br>196<br>G. W. Bush<br>183<br>185<br>Johnson<br>192<br>180<br>Hoover<br>182<br>180<br>F. Roosevelt<br>188<br>182<br>Nixon<br>182<br>180<br>Lincoln<br>193<br>188<br>Polk<br>173<br>185<br>Jackson<br>185<br>171<br>Garfield<br>183<br>187<br>Reagan<br>T. Roosevelt<br>185<br>177<br>178<br>175<br>Taft<br>182<br>178<br>Jefferson<br>189<br>170<br>Eisenhower<br>179<br>178<br>G. H. W. Bush<br>J. Q. Adams<br>188<br>173<br>171<br>191<br>McKinley<br>170<br>178<br>(1) O exactly<br>(2)<br>appears<br>more than<br>O does not appear<br>less than<br>50% is below the interval's lower limit.<br>50% is above the interval's upper limit.<br>the confidence interval includes 50%.<br>

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