In the U.S., there are two sources of national statistics on crime rates: (i) the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which publishes summaries on all crimes reported to police agencies in jurisdictions covering virtually 100% of the U.S.; (ii) the National Crime Survey (NCS), which is based on interviews with a nationwide probability sample of households. In 1992, 4.9% of the households in the NCS sample told the interviewers they had experienced a burglary within the past 12 months. The same year, the FBI reported a burglary rate of 32 per 1,000 households, or 3.2%, for the U.S. as a whole. If the FBI’s 3.2% figure is the true burglary rate for the population of U.S. households in 1992, what is the probability that the National Crime Survey would obtain a result of 4.9% or more? You may assume that the NCS is based on a simple random sample of 50,000 households out of a population of 100 million households. What do you conclude?

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