Elementary Statistics (12th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321836960
ISBN 13: 978-0-32183-696-0

Chapter 6 - Normal Probability Distributions - 6-4 Sampling Distributions and Estimators - Basic Skills and Concepts - Page 283: 15

Answer

a) Proportion of girls, probability 0, 0.25 0.5,0.5 1, 0.25 b) Yes

Work Step by Step

a) We know the following: Proportion of girls, probability 0, 0.25 0.5,0.5 1, 0.25 b) Using this table, we can see that the sample proportion and the population proportion are equal ($0.5$). Hence, the sample proportion is an unbiased predictor of the population proportion
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