A genetics experiment involves a population of fruit flies consisting of 1 male named Mike and 3

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A genetics experiment involves a population of fruit flies consisting of 1 male named Mike and 3 females named Anna, Barbara, and Chris. Assume that two fruit flies are randomly selected with replacement.

a. After listing the 16 different possible samples, find the proportion of females in each sample, then use a table to describe the sampling distribution of the proportions of females.

b. Find the mean of the sampling distribution.

c. Is the mean of the sampling distribution (from part (b)) equal to the population proportion of females? Does the mean of the sampling distribution of proportions always equal the population proportion?

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Elementary Statistics

ISBN: 9780321500243

11th Edition

Authors: Mario F. Triola

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