Question 2.12

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image2.12 We don’t like one-way streets. Highway planners decided to make a main street in West Lafayette, Indiana, a one-way street. The Lafayette Journal and Courier took a one-day poll by inviting readers to call a telephone number to record their comments. The next day, the paper reported:

Journal and Courier readers overwhelmingly prefer two-way traffic flow in West Lafayette’s Village area to one-way streets. By nearly a 7–1 margin, callers on Wednesday complained about the one-way streets that have been in place since May. Of the 98 comments received, all but 14 said no to one-way.

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  1. (a) What population do you think the newspaper wants information about?

  2. (b) Is the proportion of this population who favor one-way streets almost certainly larger or smaller than the proportion 14/98 in the sample? Why?