Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5.4, Problem 5.36LM

Suppose a random sample of n measurements is selected from a binomial population with probability of success p = .2. For each of the following values of n, give the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample proportion, p ^ .

  1. a. n = 50
  2. b. n = 1, 000
  3. c. n = 400
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