According to a poll, 55 % of Americans do not know that GOP stands for Grand Old Party (Time, October 17, 2011). Assume that thi
s percentage is true for the current population of Americans. Let p ^ be the proportion in a random sample of 953 Americans who do not know that GOP stands for Grand Old Party. Find the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of p ^ and describe its shape.
For this case we assume that the true population proportion of Americans do not know that GOP stands for Grand Old Party is 0.55 and we select a random sample of n = 953 americans
For this case we assume that we satisfy the conditions to use the normal approximation for
1) np >10 , n(1-p)>10
2) Independence
3) Random sample
4) The sample size is less than 10% of the population size
We assume that all the conditions are satisfied and the distribution for would be: