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8.3 Exercise 15

Avg difficulty 2.5


Use the following information to answer the next five exercises: Suppose a marketing company conducted a survey. It randomly surveyed 200 households and found that in 120 of them, the women made the majority of the purchasing decisions. We are interested in the population proportion of households where women make the majority of the purchasing decisions.

Define the random variables X and P′ in words.

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