A Researcher Wants to Estimate the Proportion of Manufacturing Companies

question 20

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to estimate the proportion of manufacturing companies that use the six sigma method.For this purpose, she takes a random sample of 50 manufacturing companies and finds out that 28 of them employ this method.The point estimate for the proportion of the population that uses this method is ______.

• A)0.88
• B)0.56
• C)0.44
• D)0.28
• E)0.22

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