Question

According to a University of Michigan study, released in Fall 2019, 49% of College students in the U.S. believed that “whining” in statistics courses should be banned. A recent survey of a sample of 400 college students in the U.S., by Noel (a.k.a. “Son of a Binomial!”), showed that 176 of them held this view. Find the probability that the current proportion of college students that share this view is more than 176 out of 400.

a.) What is the point estimate (p-hat) for the population proportion?

b.) What is the standard error of the population proportion?

c.) Solve the problem, be sure to label the bell curve properly

Answer 1