Some Colleges Now Allow Students to Rent Textbooks for a Semester

question 31

Multiple Choice

Some colleges now allow students to rent textbooks for a semester. Suppose that 73% of all students enrolled at a particular college would rent textbooks if that option were available to them. If the campus bookstore uses a random sample of size 40 to estimate the proportion of students at the college who would rent textbooks, then what is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of ? ​

• A)0.079
• B)0.177
• C)0.070
• D)0.031
• E)0.197

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