Sampling Means and Proportions

The Gallup Poll asked a random sample of 1785 adults whether they attended church during the past week.  Let p-hat be the proportion of people in the sample who attended church.  A newspaper report claims that 40% of all U.S. adults went to church last week.  Suppose this claim is true. 
What is the mean of the sampling distribution of p-hat?

• 0.4

• 0.44

• 0.56

• 0.6

28% of all Woodrow students believe Monday will be snow day. You take a sample of 50 students and find that 15 of them believe Monday will be a snow day. What does 50 represent? 

• n

• P

• phat

• standard deviation

When sampling from a population with proportion p, the distribution of sample proportions (p-hat) will vary. What will be the mean of all possible sample proportions?

• p

30% of all dogs in a city are micro-chipped. In a sample of 500 dogs, what is the probability that less than 32% of dogs are micro-chipped?

• 0.2586

• 0.1587

• 0.8354

• 0.1398

• 0

According to the Center for Disease Control, 93% of children entering kindergarten in the U.S. are vaccinated. A school district has 180 incoming kindergarten children.

Which of the following is true concerning the shape of the sampling distribution?

• The sampling distribution is normal because n > 30

• The sampling distribution is not normal because nq is < 30

• The sampling distribution is normal because 93% of 180 is > 10

• The sampling distribution is normal because np and nq are both > 10

According to government data, 22% of American children under the age of six live in households with incomes less than the official poverty level. A study of learning in early childhood chooses an SRS of 400 children. What is the probability that between 15% and 25% of children live in households with less than the official poverty level?

• 0.9998

• 0.0007

• 0.9259

• 1

• 0

According to government data, 22% of American children under the age of six live in households with incomes less than the official poverty level. A study of learning in early childhood chooses an SRS of 400 children. What is the probability that at most 16% of children live in households with less than the official poverty level?

• 0.0003

• 0.0019

• 0.9968

• 0.9999

• 0

The Gallup Poll asked a random sample of 1785 adults whether they attended church during the past week.  Let p-hat be the proportion of people in the sample who attended church.  A newspaper report claims that 40% of all U.S. adults went to church last week. What is the probability that 38.56% or fewer went to church last week?

• 0.9999998

• 0.8929

• 0.1071

• 0.3541

A realtor has been told that 43% of homeowners in a city prefer to have a finished basement. She surveys a group of 300 homeowners randomly chosen from her client list. Describe the sampling distribution model of the proportion of homeowners in this sample who prefer a finished basement.

• mean = 43%; standard deviation = 1.4%

• mean = 57%; standard deviation = 2.9%

• mean = 57%; standard deviation = 1.4%

• mean = 43%; standard deviation = 2.9%

• There is not enough information to describe the distribution.

A distribution showing the sample means of all sample of size n of a population is called

• Normal Distribution

• Binomial Distribution

• Sampling Distribution

• Uniform Distribution