A CBS News poll conducted June 10 and 11, 2006, among a nationwide random sample of 651 adults, asked those adults about their party affiliation (Democrat, Republican or none) and their opinion of how the US economy was changing ("getting better," "getting worse" or "about the same"). The results are shown in the table below.   better same worse Republican 38 104 44 Democrat 12 87 137 none 21 90 118 Express your answers as a decimal and round to 4 decimal places. If we randomly s

Important: This question continues from the previous two questions and onto the following two questions. A Rasmussen Reports national survey of 1000 random adult Americans found that 6% felt that Saint Patrick's Day was one of our nation's most important holidays. From the previous question, input the calculated number of successes and number of failures. Show your work on your scratch paper. The number of successes is The number of failures is .Write your answer as a whole number. . Write your answer as a whole number.

The Student Union President conducted a survey to estimate the proportion of first year students who participated in the social activities organized by the Student Union. Which of the following surveying options does NOT affect the president’s ability to generalize the survey to all first year students. The president put the survey on the Student Union webpage a Monday and collected the responses at the end of the week.   All of the other options present a problem for generalizing the results.       The president polled all students coming out of the Student Union on a given Monday.   The freshmen class consists of 3000 students. A random sample of only 300 were sent a survey. Only 150 responded.   The survey was sent only to first year students enrolled in statistics courses because all students need to satisfy a statistics general education requirement.

A survey asked participants if they liked vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream, both, or neither. Of those surveyed, 44% liked vanilla, 68% liked chocolate, and 19% liked neither. What percentage of the students liked both vanilla and chocolate? (1) 17% (3) 27% (2) 22% (4) 31%

A recent report stated that in 1990, there were approximately 9.7 million employment opportunities in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) related field. There is a reported 17.3 million positions available in a STEM related field in 2019. What is the relative change in the number of STEM positions available from 1990 to 2019?   A. 7.6% B. 56.1% C. 43.9% D. 78.4%

A researcher is interested in the social media habits of American teenagers. The goal of the research is to determine the average number of hours each day that the entire group of American teenagers spend watching television. The researcher is trying to determine a number that is an example of a ?? A researcher is studying the behavior of American prisoners. The entire group of American prisoners is an example of a ??   A researcher is interested in mental health outcomes for US College students. If she obtained Depression Inventory scores for a group of college students, the mean score would be an example of a ??

Virginia polled a large sample of individuals to find the percentage of students with known food allergies and the percentage of students without known food allergies. Which of the following could sufficiently display the data if only the two given categories are to be included? Select the correct answer below:   bar graph   pie chart   either a pie chart or a bar graph   neither a pie chart nor a bar graph

A polling company reported that 53% of 1013 surveyed adults said that secondhand smoke is "quite annoying." Complete parts (a) through (d) below. a. What is the exact value that is 53% of 1013? The exact value is (Type an integer or a decimal.) b. Could the result from part (a) be the actual number of adults who said that secondhand smoke is "quite annoying"? Why or why not? O A. Yes, the result from part (a) could be the actual number of adults who said that secondhand smoke is "quite annoying" because the results are statistically significant. B. No, the result from part (a) could not be the actual number of adults who said that secondhand smoke is "quite annoying" because that is a very rare opinion. O C. No, the result from part (a) could not be the actual number of adults who said that secondhand smoke is "quite annoying" because a count of people must result in a whole number. D. Yes, the result from part (a) could be the actual number of adults who said that secondhand smoke is…

The table below reveals the relative frequencies of students and how they get to and from school. Why is the lower right cell in this table 100%? is it because every row in this sort of table adds to 100? all of the other numbers in the table add to 100?  it was just a lucky set of numbers that happened to add to 100? or because 100% represents all of the students who were included in the data set?

Twenty-nine college students, identified as having a positive attitude about Mitt Romney as compared to Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, were asked to rate how trustworthy the face of Mitt Romney appeared, as represented in their mental image of Mitt Romney’s face. Ratings were on a scale of 0 to 7, with 0 being “not at all trustworthy” and 7 being “extremely trustworthy.” Here are the 29 ratings:  2.6 3.2 3.7 3.3 3.4 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4.1 4.2 4.9 5.7 4.2 3.9 3.2 4.5 5.0 5.0 4.6 4.6 3.9 3.9 5.3 2.8 2.6 3.0 3.3 3.7   a 95% confidence interval for the mean rating. Is there significant evidence at the 5% level that the mean rating is greater than 3.5 (a neutral rating)?