Excursions In Modern Mathematics, 9th Edition
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ISBN: 9780134494142
Author: Tannenbaum
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14, Problem 20E
Exercise17 through 20 refer to the following story: The city of Cleansburg has 8325 registered voters. There is an election for mayor of Cleansburg, and there are three candidates for the position: Smith, Jones, and Brown. The day before the election a telephone poll of 680 randomly chosen registered voters produced the following results: 306 people surveyed indicated that they would vote for Smith, 272 indicated that they would vote for Jones and 102 indicated that they would vote for Brown.
Do you think that the sampling error in this example was due primarily to sampling bias or to chance? Explain your answer.
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