Chapter 7: Problem 19
Assume your class has 30 students and you want a random sample of 10 of them. Describe how to randomly select 10 people from your class using the random number table.
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Chapter 7: Problem 19
Assume your class has 30 students and you want a random sample of 10 of them. Describe how to randomly select 10 people from your class using the random number table.
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In a simple random sample of 1200 Americans age 20 and over, the proportion with diabetes was found to be \(0.115\) (or \(11.5 \%)\). a. What is the standard error for the estimate of the proportion of all Americans age 20 and over with diabetes? b. Find the margin of error, using a \(95 \%\) confidence level, for estimating this proportion. c. Report the \(95 \%\) confidence interval for the proportion of all Americans age 20 and over with diabetes. d. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nationally, \(10.7 \%\) of all Americans age 20 or over have diabetes. Does the confidence interval you found in part c support or refute this claim? Explain.
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While the majority of people who are color blind are male, the National Eye Institute reports that \(0.5 \%\) of women of with Northern European ancestry have the common form of red-green color blindness. Suppose a random sample of 100 women with Northern European ancestry is selected. Can we find the probability that less than \(0.3 \%\) of the sample is color blind? If so, find the probability. If not, explain why this probability cannot be calculated.
A recent Monmouth University poll found that 675 out of 1008 randomly selected people in the United States felt that college and universities with big sports programs placed too much emphasis on athletics over academics. Assuming the conditions for using the CLT were met, use the Minitab output provided to answer these questions. $$\begin{aligned}&\text { Descriptive Statistics }\\\&\begin{array}{rrrr}\mathrm{N} & \text { Event } & \text { Sample p } & 95 \% \mathrm{Cl} \text { for } \mathrm{p} \\\\\hline 1008 & 675 & 0.669643 & (0.639648,0.698643)\end{array}\end{aligned}$$ a. Complete this sentence: I am \(95 \%\) confident that the population proportion believing that colleges and universities with big sports programs place too much emphasis on athletics over academics is between _____ and _______. Report each number as a percentage rounded to one decimal place. b. Suppose a sports blogger wrote an article claiming that the majority of Americans believe that colleges and university with big sports programs place too much emphasis on athletics over academics. Does this confidence interval support the blogger's claim? Explain your reasoning.
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