The College of Portland has a total enrollment of N = 2444 students and 269 of them

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The College of Portland has a total enrollment of N = 2444 students and 269 of them are lefthanded. You conduct a survey of n = 50 students and find that 8 of them are lefthanded.

a. What is the population proportion, p, of left-handed students?
b. What is the sample proportion, pn, of left-handed students?
c. If the sample proportion differs from the population proportion by a large amount, does that imply that the sampling method is flawed? Explain.

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Statistical Reasoning For Everyday Life

ISBN: 978-0134494043

5th Edition

Authors: Jeff Bennett, William Briggs, Mario Triola

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