Answered: Telephone interviews of random sample…

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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Telephone interviews of random sample of 211 registered voters are performed and each person is asked for whom they will vote in the next election. The pollsters found that found that 65% indicated they would vote for candidate A. The pollsters used this sample to make an inference that candidate A is likely to receive approximately 65% of all votes cast by the population of registered voters in the next election. Identify the statistic and parameter in this scenario.

a. statistic - Sample proportion who will vote for candidate A; parameter - Sample proportion who will vote for candidate A

b. statistic - population proportion who will vote for candidate A; parameter - sample proportion who will vote for candidate A

c. statistic - Sample proportion who will vote for candidate A; parameter - population proportion who will vote for candidate A

d. statistic - population proportion who will vote for candidate A; parameter - population proportion who will vote for candidate A

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