35. Oh, Nuts! Are you a chocolate purist, or do you like other ingredients in your chocolate?...
Question:
35. Oh, Nuts! Are you a chocolate “purist,” or do you like other ingredients in your chocolate? American Demographics reports that almost 75% of consumers like traditional ingredients such as nuts or caramel in their chocolate.17 A random sample of 200 consumers is selected and the number who like nuts or caramel in their chocolate is recorded.
a. What is the approximate sampling distribution for the sample proportion ˆp? What are the mean and standard deviation for this distribution?
b. What is the probability that the sample percentage is greater than 80%?
c. Within what limits would you expect the sample proportion to lie about 95% of the time?
Step by Step Answer:
Introduction To Probability And Statistics
ISBN: 9780357114469
15th Edition
Authors: William Mendenhall Iii , Robert Beaver , Barbara Beaver