Bundle: Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel, Loose-Leaf Version, 6th + MindTap Business Statistics, 2 terms (12 months) Printed Access Card
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ISBN: 9781337589383
Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 7.6, Problem 33E

Seventy two percent of American adults have read a book within the past year (pewresearch.org, December 3, 2014). Assume this is the true population proportion and that you plan to take a sample survey of 540 American adults to further investigate their behavior.

  1. a. Show the sampling distribution of p ¯ , the proportion of your sample respondents who have read a book in the past year.
  2. b. What is the probability that your survey will provide a sample proportion within ±.03 of the population proportion?
  3. c. What is the probability that your survey will provide a sample proportion within ±.015 of the population proportion?
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