Of the 155 billion mailpieces the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processed and delivered in 2017, 4.3% were
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Of the 155 billion mailpieces the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processed and delivered in 2017, 4.3% were undeliverable as addressed. Suppose that a brief questionnaire about USPS service is attached to each mailpiece in a random sample of 114,250 mailpieces.
a. What is the sampling distribution of the sample proportion of undeliverable mailpieces p for this study?
b. What is the probability that the sample proportion of undeliverable mailpieces p will be within .1% of the population proportion of undeliverable mailpieces?
c. What is the probability that the sample proportion of undeliverable mailpieces p will be within .05% of the population proportion of undeliverable mailpieces? Comment on the difference between this probability and the probability computed in part (b).
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Statistics For Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781337901062
14th Edition
Authors: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran