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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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The Food Marketing Institute reports that 17% of households spend more than $100 on grocery products. Assume that the population proportion is P = 0.17 and that a simple random sample of 800 households is taken from the population.
of 800 households is taken from the population.
a. Express the sampling distribution of , the sample proportion of households that spend more than $100 per week on groceries. a. Express the sampling distribution of , the sample proportion of households that spend more than $100 per week on
groceries.
b. What is the probability that the population proportion does not differ by more than 0.02 from the population proportion?
c. Answer item b in the case where the sample size is 1600 households.

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