Homework Help: statistics

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 17, 2012 at 5:26pm.

A random sample of 84 shoppers were interviewed and 51 said they prefer to shop alone rather than with someone such as friends or family. Let p represent the proportion of all shoppers at this mall who would prefer to shop alone. Find a point estimate for p from the sample proportion.

statistics - Mmmk, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 8:07pm
n=84
x=51
51/84=0.607
p-hat = 0.607

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