Concept explainers
To predict:
The number of townspeople who would support the building of a new movie theater.
Answer to Problem 11.7EP
About 8500 townspeople would support the building of a new movie theater.
Explanation of Solution
Given:
A town’s population is 12,500. In a random sample of 300 townspeople, 204 said they support the building of a new movie theater.
Calculation:
We will use proportions to find the number of townspeople who would support the building of a new movie theateras shown below:
Proportions state that ratio between two quantities are equal.
Now we will substitute the population of town is above proportion.
Therefore, about 8500 townspeople would support the building of a new movie theater.
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