Introductory Statistics
1st Edition
ISBN: 9781938168208
Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 8, Problem 119H
According to a recent survey of 1,200 people. 61% feel that the president Is doing an acceptable job. We are interested in the population proportion of people who feel the president is doing an acceptable job.
a. Define the random variables X and P’ In words.
b. Which distribution should you use for this problem? Explain your choice.
c. Construct a 90% confidence Interval for the population proportion of people who feel the president is doing an acceptable job.
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i. State the confidence Interval.
ii. Sketch the graph.
iii. Calculate the en-or bound.
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The table below indicates the number of years of experience of a sample of employees who work on a particular production line and the corresponding number of units of a good that each employee produced last month.
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