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Suppose you are working on a political campaign. You are tasked to figure out what proportion of voters are in favor of your candidate. You want to be 98% confident within 5% of the true proportion. What sample size would be required in this scenario?

Age is an example of which measurement scale?

Select the statistical term that most closely matches the definition below: “A characteristic of interest about each individual element of a population or sample”

Select the statistical term that most closely matches the definition below: “A subset of the population, chosen in such a way that it is believed to represent the population”

A person’s height is an example of which measurement scale?

Select the statistical term that most closely matches the definition below: “The collection of information from every object in a population”

The CBEST is a test that individuals in California must take before they can become substitute teachers at the K-12 level. One portion of the exam is devoted to mathematics and it consists of 50 multiple choice questions that each have 5 possible options. Suppose Jim took the CBEST test and decided to randomly guess on all 50 questions. Use this information to answer the following question.  What is the probability that Jim gets no less than 9 correct? Make sure to type in your answer as a decimal rounded to 3 decimal places. For example, if you thought the answer was 0.54321 then you would type in 0.543.

A math professor was interested in figuring out whether students taking mathematics classes  at his school preferred to take them online or face to face. He decided to randomly survey students taking mathematics classes that semester. He ended up surveying 120 students who were taking math classes that semester, and 40 of them stated that they preferred taking their math classes online while 80 of them preferred taking them face to face. Construct and interpret a 92% confidence interval for the true proportion of students at the school that prefer to take math classes face to face.  Make sure to address the following in your response: Check any and all relevant assumptions and state how you determined whether or not they were satisfied (Be as specific as possible) Make sure to type your confidence interval in an interval format with each bound rounded to 3 decimal places [i.e. (12.345, 45.678)] Make sure to include an interpretation in context of the given problem

The CBEST is a test that individuals in California must take before they can become substitute teachers at the K-12 level. One portion of the exam is devoted to mathematics and it consists of 50 multiple choice questions that each have 5 possible options. Suppose Jim took the CBEST test and decided to randomly guess on all 50 questions. Use this information to answer the following question.  What is the probability that Jim gets at least 7 correct?  Make sure to type in your answer as a decimal rounded to 3 decimal places. For example, if you thought the answer was 0.54321 then you would type in 0.543.

Suppose you are carrying out a 1-sample t-test and your given sample size is 35. What would be the corresponding degrees of freedom?