Intro Stats, Books a la Carte Edition (5th Edition)

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ISBN: 9780134210285

Author: Richard D. De Veaux, Paul Velleman, David E. Bock

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 13.2, Problem 1JC

You want to poll a random sample of 100 students on campus to see if they are in favor of the proposed location for the new student center. Of course, you’ll get just one number, your sample proportion, p ^ . But if you imagined all the possible samples of 100 students you could draw and imagined the histogram of all the sample proportions from these samples, what shape would it have?

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Intro Stats, Books a la Carte Edition (5th Edition)

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Solution Summary: The author explains that the shape of the histogram of all possible sample proportions is normal. A random sample of 100 students on campus is polled to see whether they are in favor of a new student center.

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