Sophia Statistics Unit 5 Milestone - Corrected

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You passed this Milestone 1 Which of the following is an example of a parameter? Half of the receipts at the coffee shop include web address for giving feedback. 9047 out of 531,310 citizens vot ... ed in the special election for city council. 3.5% of the restaurant goers are given a survey to fill out. All of the members of the community watch group gave their availability to volunteer over the summer. RATIONALE Recall a parameter comes from the entire set of interest, the population. Since they are looking at all members of a community here, their availability to volunteer would be an example of a parameter. CONCEPT Sample Statistics and Population Parameters I need help with this question 2 A school is gathering some data on its sports teams because it was believed that the distribution of boys and girls were evenly distributed across all the sports. This table lists the number of boys and girls participating in each sport. Boys Girls Tennis 18 30 Soccer 42 15 Swimming 12 18 Select the observed and expected frequencies for the boys participating in soccer. Observed: 42 Expected: 22.5 Observed: 42 Expected: 24 Observed: 57 Expected: 24 Observed: 57 Expected: 22.5 RATIONALE If we simply go to the chart then we can directly see the observed frequency for boys participating in soccer is 42. To find the expected frequency, we need to find the number of occurrences if the null hypothesis is true, which in this case, was that the three options are equally likely, or if the three options were all evenly distributed. First, add up all the options in the boys column: If each of these three options were evenly distributed among the 72 boys, we would need to divide the total evenly between the three options: This means we would expect 24 boys to choose tennis, 24 boys to choose soccer, and 24 boys to choose swimming. CONCEPT Chi-Square Statistic I need help with this question 3 Sukie interviewed 125 employees at her company and discovered that 21 of them planned to take an extended vacation next year. What is the 95% confidence interval for this population proportion? Answer choices are rounded to the hundredths place. 0.11 to 0.21 0.10 to 0.23 0.16 to 0.17 0.11 to 0.16 RATIONALE In order to get the CI we wan [Show More]

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