Suppose the true proportion of voters in the county who support
a new fire district is 0.61. Consider the sampling distribution for
the proportion of supporters with sample size n = 136.
What is the mean of this distribution?
What is the standard deviation of this
distribution?
Solution
Given that,
p = 0.61
1 - p = 1 - 0.61 = 0.39
n = 136
The mean of the sampling distribution of proportion is ,
= p = 0.61
The standard deviation of the sampling distribution is ,
= p ( 1 - p ) / n
= (0.61 * 0.39) / 136 = 0.0418
= 0.0418
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