In january 2010 a gallup poll asked a random sample of adults, "in general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the united states at this time? " in all, 256 said that they were satisfied and the remaining 769 said they were not. construct and interpret a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of adults who are satisfied with how things are going.

This poll talks about the economic progress of the United States where during those times in year 2010 Barack Obama is the president of the country. The poll have given a big difference towards the evaluation on how the economy have a lot of negative effects to citizen of the country that it was before. First is the issue about unemployment many Americans have no jobs, remember that this issue really gives a fall towards economic progress development for it can help generate more potential opportunities specially when it comes to factors that are all in the benefit of people getting employed where the business can gain more with the workforce, second is the health care issues are also one of the factors considered why they are unsatisfied with the economy, the platform and campaigns relating to health issues were not that fully effective, lastly the federal budget deficit in which really imparts a major negative effect on the economy for this is used for many developmental projects for the government's economic stability.