EBook Problems EDA Shape

EBook Problems Set - Measures of Shape

Problem 1

46% of the likely voters in Los Angeles intend to vote for Mayor James. Suppose we take a random sample of 1000 likely Los Angeles voters. For every person in our sample who intends to vote for Mayor James we will record a "1". For every person who will not vote for the mayor, we will record a "0". Suppose we now make a histogram of our results. Which of the following is a good description of the histogram?

• Choose one answer.

(a) The distribution will have a spike at the value 0.46

(b) The distribution will be approximately normal

(c) The sample size is too small to tell

(d) The distribution will show about 46% of the replies at 1 and 54% at 0

Answer

 (d)

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