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Semenov [28]
3 years ago
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A telephone exchange operator assumes that 8% of the phone calls are wrong numbers. If the operator is right, what is the probab

ility that the proportion of wrong numbers in a sample of 421 phone calls would differ from the population proportion by greater than 3%? Round your answer to four decimal places.
Mathematics
1 answer:
Vera_Pavlovna [14]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

The probability that the sample proportion differ from the population proportion by greater than 3% is 0.0241.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let <em>X</em> = number of phone calls that are wrong numbers.

The proportion of phone calls that are wrong numbers is, <em>p</em> = 0.08.

A sample of<em> </em><em>n</em> = 421 phone calls is selected to determine the proportion of wrong numbers in this sample.

The random variable <em>X</em> follows a Binomial distribution with parameters <em>n</em> and <em>p</em>.

The probability mass function of a Binomial distribution is:

P(X=x)={421\choose x}0.08^{x}(1-0.08)^{421-x}

Now, for the sample proportion to differ from the population proportion by 3% the value of the sample proportion should be:

\hat p-p=0.03\\\hat p-0.08=0.03\\\hat p=0.11                            \hat p-p=-0.03\\\hat p-0.08=-0.03\\\hat p=0.05

So when the sample proportion is less than 5% or greater than 11% the difference between the sample proportion and population proportion will be greater than 3%.

  • If sample proportion is 5% then the value of <em>X</em> is,

        X=np=421\times 0.05=21.05\approx21

        Compute the value of P (X ≤ 21) as follows:

       P(X\leq 21)=\sum\limits^{21}_{x=0}{{421\choose x}0.08^{x}(1-0.08)^{421-x}}=0.0106

  • If the sample proportion is 11% then the value of <em>X</em> is,

        X=np=421\times 0.11=46.31\approx47

        Compute the value of P (X ≥ 47) as follows:

       P(X\geq 47)=\sum\limits^{471}_{x=47}{{421\choose x}0.08^{x}(1-0.08)^{421-x}}=0.0135

Then the probability that the sample proportion differ from the population proportion by greater than 3% is:

P(\hat p-p>0.03)=P(X\leq 21)+P(X\geq 47)=0.0106+0.0135=0.0241

Thus, the probability that the sample proportion differ from the population proportion by greater than 3% is 0.0241.

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