Author Question: A company claims that 9 out of 10 doctors (i.e., 90) recommend its brand of cough syrup to their ... (Read 91 times)

newyorker26 · **on:** Jul 24, 2018

A company claims that 9 out of 10 doctors (i.e., 90) recommend its brand of cough syrup to their patients.

To test this claim against the alternative that the actual proportion is less than 90, a random sample of 100 doctors was chosen which resulted in 87 who indicate that they recommend this cough syrup. The test statistic in this problem is approximately:
A) -0.50 B) -0.66 C) 1.00 D) -1.00

Question 2

State your conclusion.

A statistics teacher wants to know how students in her school feel about mathematics courses. She decides to administer a survey to a random sample of students taking a mathematics course.

She has several sampling plans to choose from.
a. There are four ranks of students taking the class: freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Randomly select 15 students from each class rank.
b. Randomly select ten math class sections and survey every student in each of those sections.
c. Each student has a nine-digit student number. Randomly choose 60 different nine-digit numbers and survey the students that correspond to those numbers.
d. Randomly select a number from 1 to 5. Using the class roster, start at that number, then select every fifth student from the list after that.

morrie123456 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 24, 2018

Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

Trial 1 required 8 families, Trial 2 required 11, and Trial 3 required 11. The mean of these is 10. So our estimate of the number of families needed to get 20 children is ten.