In: Statistics and Probability
Of all freshman at a large college, 16% made the dean’s list in the current year. As part of a class project, students randomly sample 40 students and check if those students made the list. They repeat this 1000 times and build a distribution of sample proportions.
1. What is this distribution called?
2. Would you expect the shape of this distribution to be symmetric, right skewed, or left skewed? Explain your reasoning.
3 Find/calculate a measure of the variability of this distribution. 4. What is the formal name of the value that you computed in (c)?
5. Use the information above to construct a 95% confidence interval and interpret it using a full sentence.
6. What is the margin of error in your confidence interval? (Be sure to show a calculation to support your response.)
7. Suppose the students decide to sample again, this time collecting 90 students per sample. They build a new distribution of sample proportions. How will the variability of the new distribution compare to the variability of the distribution when each sample contained 40 observations.