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Chapter 8, Problem 24PS
The file MobileCommerce contains mobile commerce penetration value (the percentage of the country population that bought something online via a mobile phone in the past month) for twenty-eight of the world’s economies:
a. Construct a
b. What assumption do you-need to make about the population to construct the interval in (a)?
c. Given the data presented, do you think the assumption needed in (a) is Valid? Explain.
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