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What happens if you encounter a too-small sample size when estimating a proportion?

You are a business analyst working for a logistics company in Mumbai. The company is planning a report on the on-time delivery rate of their packages. To provide accurate information to your clients, your supervisor has asked you to estimate the proportion of packages that are delivered on time. You have collected a sample data set from various deliveries in Mumbai. Using this data, estimate the proportion of packages that are delivered on time. Use a 90% confidence level for your estimate and round your answers to four decimal places.   Here is the sample data you collected (“on time” indicates on-time delivery, “late” indicates late delivery):   on time, on time, on time, late, on time, late, late, on time, late, late, on time, on time, late, late, on time, on time, on time, on time, late, late, late, late, on time, on time, late, on time, on time, late, late, late   HELPFUL NOTE: Copy and paste the data into an Excel workbook. If it jams it all into a single cell, use the “text to columns” function in the Data ribbon to tell it to split it into individual cells using a comma delimiter. Left bound = [leftbound] Right bound = [rightbound]

The height of adult males in a certain population follows a normal distribution with a mean of 175 cm and a standard deviation of 7 cm. What is the probability that an adult male’s height will be between 167 cm and 189 cm? Select the correct Excel function statements to calculate this probability.

Shawn decides to start a business offering psychic consulting services (“Florida Psychics”).  Shawn goes to Gus, who was working at a pharmaceutical sales company (“Fresh Pharma Farms”).  Shawn hires Gus to assist Shawn as a key employee at Florida Psychics.  Gus thus quits his job at Fresh Pharma Farms. While cleaning out his desk at Fresh Pharma Farms, Gus overhears his former coworker discussing the idea of hiring a private investigator to help her handle a personal issue. Gus tells the coworker that he can help her by offering his consulting services, and the two form a contract where Gus agrees to locate someone for the coworker.  Gus eventually forgets he made the agreement with his coworker, and never locates the person he agreed to locate. The coworker decides to sue for breach of contract. Under which scenario would Gus NOT be held liable?

Which of the following is the correct main() method header?

Create a Python script that demonstrates the use of different numeric types. Print the results of basic arithmetic operations using integers, floats, and complex numbers.

Shawn decides to start a business offering psychic consulting services (“Florida Psychics”).  Shawn goes to Gus, who was working at a pharmaceutical sales company (“Fresh Pharma Farms”).  Shawn hires Gus to assist Shawn as a key employee at Florida Psychics.  Gusthus quits his job at Fresh Pharma Farms. While cleaning out his desk at Fresh Pharma Farms, Gus overhears his former coworker discussing the idea of hiring a private investigator to help her handle a personal issue. Gus tells the coworker that he can help her by offering his consulting services, and the two form a contract where Gus agrees to locate someone for the coworker.  Gus eventually forgets he made the agreement with his coworker, and never locates the person he agreed to locate. The coworker decides to sue for breach of contract. Under which scenario would Gus NOT be held liable?

A sample of seven states was selected. Information about the cost of living indexes for groceries and housing is listed. They want to predict the grocery index based on the housing index. Find the correlation coefficient. Round to three decimal places and include the negative sign if appropriate.   State Grocery Housing West Virginia  98.9 60.2 Oklahoma  94.6 68.6 Kansas  94.9 73.9 Iowa  96 74.8 Indiana  97.4 76.2 Tennessee  96.6 83.7 Michigan  98.3 72.5

When solving a problem with computer programming, you should always start by writing Java code immediately so as not to waste time thinking about details.

The number of sunny days in a year in a certain region follows a normal distribution with a mean of 120 days and a standard deviation of 25 days. A climatologist wants to figure out what a likely range of outcomes is for the number of sunny days. What is the upper bound to an interval in which the number of sunny days will fall 80% of the time? Provide your answer rounded to the nearest whole number.