In: Statistics and Probability
In 2017, the city of Burrusville contained 26,898 households. According to city records, 16,275 of these households had a dog. Use this information to answer the following questions.
a) What is p, the population proportion? Show your calculation and round your solution to three decimal places. (2 points)
b) Suppose a simple random sample of 140 homes were chosen at random, and 91 of these homes had a dog. Verify that the sampling distribution is approximately normal. (3 points)
c) What is the probability that a random sample of 140 homes from Burrusville would contain 91 or fewer with a dog? (4 points)
Number of household in Burrusville = 26898
households had a dog in Burrusville = 16275
a) What is p, the population proportion? Show your calculation and round your solution to three decimal places.
p = households had a dog in Burrusville / Number of household in Burrusville
p = 16275 / 26898
p = 0.605
b) Suppose a simple random sample of 140 homes were chosen at random, and 91 of these homes had a dog. Verify that the sampling distribution is approximately normal.
The sample size is greater than 30 hence it is normal
Sample proportion, p = 91/140 = 0.65
c) What is the probability that a random sample of 140 homes from Burrusville would contain 91 or fewer with a dog?
Let x be the number of dogs