Use the Following Information to Answer the Question

question 52

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question. A pollotarian is a person who eats poultry but no red meat. A wedding planner does some research and finds that approximately 3.5% of the people in the area where a large wedding is to be held are pollotarian. Treat the 300 guests expected at the wedding as a simple random sample from the local population of about 200,000.
-Suppose the wedding planner assumes that only 3% of the guests will be pollotarian so she orders 9 pollotarian meals. What is the approximate probability that she will have too many pollotarian meals? Round to the nearest thousandth.

• A)0.319
• B)0.251
• C)0.681
• D)0.477

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Hypothesis Testing

A method of statistical inference used to decide whether a hypothesis about a parameter in a population is likely to be true, based on sample data.

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