News article statement about the margin of error

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Question: Equality for women? Have efforts to promote equality for women gone far enough in the United States? A poll on this issue by the cable network MSNBC contacted 1019 adults. A newspaper article about the poll said, "Results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points."

(a) The news article said that 65% of men, but only 43% of women, think that efforts to promote equality have gone far enough. Explain why we do not have enough information to give confidence intervals for men and women separately.

(b) Would a 95% confidence interval for women alone have a margin of error less than 0.03, about equal to 0.03, or greater than 0.03? Why? (You see that the news article's statement about the margin of error for poll results is a bit misleading).

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