Statistics Question (1)

Topics: Normal Probability Distribution, Sampling Probability Distribution (Mean), Sampling Distribution (Proportion)

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Question 1 (6 points) With the ongoing competition for students, colleges are continuously attempting to DECREASE their dropout rates and INCREASE their student satisfaction levels. Canadian colleges as a a whole collectively have a dropout rate of 19%, based upon the sample below of Fanshawe College students answer the following questions. Canadian College Graduate vs. Dropout Study Graduate Graduate Dropout Dropout Dropout Graduate Graduate Dropout Graduate Graduate Dropout Dropout Graduate Graduate 1 EnDEJE BIEPRJS Dropout Graduate STEPEJE Graduate Dropout Dropout Graduate BLANK #1: Is this a question involving mean or proportion? **ANSWER "MEAN" OR "PROPORTION" (WITHOUT THE QUOTATION MARKS)*** BLANK #2: Which type of distribution should be used to calculate the probability for this question? *ANSWER "NORMAL" OR "BINOMIAL" (WITHOUT THE QUOTATION MARKS)*** BLANK #3: What is the probability of this sample? *ANSWER TO 4 DECIMALS, BE SURE TO INCLUDE LEADING ZERO, EXAMPLE "0.1234"...NOT "1234"*** BLANK#4: Does this sample give you reason to believe that Fanshawe College might have an issue with its dropout rate compared to Canadian Colleges as a whole? *ANSWER "YES" OR "NO" (WITHOUT THE QUOTATION MARKS)*** A/ A/ A/With the ongoing competition for students, colleges are continuously attempting to DECREASE their dropout rates and INCREASE their student satisfaction levels. Canadian colleges as a a whole collectively have a dropout rate of 19%, based upon the sample below of Fanshawe College students answer the following questions. Canadian College Graduate vs. Dropout Study Graduate Dropout Graduate Dropout Dropout Graduate Graduate Graduate Graduate Graduate Dropout Graduate Graduate Graduate Dropout Graduate Graduate Dropout Graduate Graduate Graduate Dropout Graduate Graduate Graduate Graduate Graduate Graduate Dropout Dropout BLANK #1: Is this a question involving mean or proportion? *#*ANSWER "MEAN" OR "PROPORTION" (WITHOUT THE QUOTATION MARKS)*** BLANK #2: Which type of distribution should be used to calculate the probability for this question? *ANSWER "NORMAL" OR "BINOMIAL" (WITHOUT THE QUOTATION MARKS)*** BLANK #3: What is the probability of this sample? *ANSWER TO 4 DECIMALS, BE SURE TO INCLUDE LEADING ZERO, EXAMPLE "0.1234"...NOT ".1234"*** BLANK#4: Does this sample give you reason to believe that Fanshawe College might have an issue with its dropout rate compared to Canadian Colleges as a whole? **ANSWER "YES" OR "NO" (WITHOUT THE QUOTATION MARKS)*** Answer for blank # 1: PROPORTION (16.67 %) Answer for blank # 2: BINOMIAL X Answer for blank # 3: 0.0079 X Answer for blank # 4: YES X (PROPORTION, NORMAL, 0.0623, NO)