uppose you try to conduct a presidential approval poll of 10,000 likely U.S. voters. You know that 24% of the voters are registered as Republican, 34% are registered as Democrat, and 40% are registered as Independent. If you are going to construct a representative sample of this population, approximately how many of the likely voters in the sample should be: a. Republican b. Democrat c. Independent d. Notice the sum of the percents is not 100. What could account for this?

uppose you try to conduct a presidential approval poll of 10,000 likely U.S. voters. You know that 24% of the voters are registered as Republican, 34% are registered as Democrat, and 40% are registered as Independent. If you are going to construct a representative sample of this population, approximately how many of the likely voters in the sample should be: a. Republican b. Democrat c. Independent d. Notice the sum of the percents is not 100. What could account for this?

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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