Question

1. A researcher wants to estimate the percentage of students who attend OSU who currently have student debt over $4000. Two hundred forty (240) OSU students were contacted by phone and email and eight-seven (87) of them claimed to have student debt over $4000. For each underlined vocabulary word below, describe and/or compute the relevant concept for this scenario

(a) Identify the population for this study

(b) Identify the sample for this study.

(c) Compute and state the relevant statistic for this study

(d) Identify the variable for this study.

Answer 1

Here the researcher want to estimate the percentage of students who attend OSU who currently have student debt over $4000.

a) so here population is Students who attend OSU and who currently have student debt over $4000.

b)Two hundred forty (240) OSU students were contacted by phone and email and eight-seven (87) of them claimed to have student debt over $4000

So the 240 OSU students who were contacted by phone is the sample.

c) Statistic for this study is the proportion of OSU students who have debt over $4000.

p^= sample proportion = 87/240 =0.3625

d) variable of the study is that students debt over $4000.

Thank you.