Suppose that fund-raisers at a university call recent graduates to request donations for campus outreach programs. They
Question:
Suppose that fund-raisers at a university call recent graduates to request donations for campus outreach programs. They report the following information for last year’s graduates:
Size of donation $0 $10 $25 $50 Proportion of calls .45 .30 .20 .05 Three attempts were made to contact each graduate; a donation of $0 was recorded both for those who were contacted but who declined to make a donation and for those who were not reached in three attempts. Consider the variable x 5 amount of donation for the population of last year’s graduates of this university.
a. Construct a relative frequency histogram to represent the population distribution of this variable.
b. What is the most common value of x in this population?
c. What is P(x $ 25)?
d. What is P(x . 0)?
Step by Step Answer:
Statistics The Exploration And Analysis Of Data
ISBN: 9781133171744
007th Edition
Authors: Roxy Peck, Ay L Devore