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8.3 Exercise 33

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Use the following information to answer the next 16 exercises: The Ice Chalet offers dozens of different beginning ice-skating classes. All of the class names are put into a bucket. The 5 p.m., Monday night, ages 8 to 12, beginning ice-skating class is picked. In that class are 64 girls and 16 boys. Suppose that we are interested in the true proportion of girls, ages 8 to 12, in all beginning ice-skating classes at the Ice Chalet. Assume that the children in the selected class are a random sample of the population.

Define a new random variable P′. What is p′ estimating?

OpenStax Statistics, 8.3 A Population Proportion, exercise 33

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