If 33% of the members of Sweetheart Union sign petitions to decertify the union, the National Labor Relations Board will call an
election to determine whether the Sweetheart will remain the exclusive bargaining agent. The union leadership takes a random survey of 40 members and finds that eight persons will sign the petition. What can you tell the union?
Surveys are based on probability or statistics. It serves as a standard tool for experimental research in marketing, social sciences and official data statistics.
Since 8 out of 40 members of the Sweetheart Union will sign the petition, the percentage of those who will sign the petition is calculated below:
Based on the sample survey, only 20 percent of the members will sign the petition. Since, in the sample, the number of those who will sign is less than 33%, the union should be told that there is no need for the National Labor Relations Board to call for the election.
I'm not sure if this is right, but I think it's 1. If you think about the simplest quintic polynomial, x^5, and set it to any real number, you'll always get 1 solution. I don't think it's possible to have 0 or no real solutions. Hope this helps!
