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8.3 Exercise 57

Avg difficulty 2.5


Use the following information to answer the next two exercises: Five hundred eleven (511) homes in a certain southern California community are randomly surveyed to determine whether they meet minimal earthquake preparedness recommendations. One hundred seventy-three (173) of the homes surveyed meet the minimum recommendations for earthquake preparedness, and 338 do not.

The point estimate for the population proportion of homes that do not meet the minimum recommendations for earthquake preparedness is ______.

  1. 0.6614
  2. 0.3386
  3. 173
  4. 338

OpenStax Statistics, 8.3 A Population Proportion, exercise 57

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