Question

You have been given the task of finding out what proportion of students that enroll in a local university actually complete their degree. you have access to first year enrolment records and you decide to randomly sample 114 of those records. you find that 88 of those sampled went on to complete their degree. a)calculate the proportion of sampled students that complete their degree. give your answer as a decimal to 3 decimal places.

Answer 1

The sample proportion p is found as follows:
$p=\frac{88}{114}=0.772$