Catherine Chao, Director of Marketing Research, Needs a Sample of Kansas

question 11

Multiple Choice

Catherine Chao, Director of Marketing Research, needs a sample of Kansas City households to participate in the testing of a new toothpaste package.If 40% of the households in Kansas City prefer the new package, the probability that Catherine's random sample of 300 households will have a sample proportion greater than 0.45 is closest to ___________.

• A)0.9232
• B)0.0768
• C)0.4616
• D)0.0384
• E)0.8974

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