A University Dean Is Interested in Determining the Proportion of Students

question 125

Short Answer

A university dean is interested in determining the proportion of students who receive some sort of financial aid.Rather than examine the records for all students,the dean randomly selects 200 students and finds that 118 of them are receiving financial aid.Use a 90% confidence interval to estimate the true proportion of students who receive financial aid.

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Definitions:

Situated Cognition

A belief that one’s culture and one’s everyday surroundings and tasks set both boundaries and possibilities for the cognitive tasks that are practiced, and therefore strengthened, during the normal course of daily living.

Flexibility

The capacity to adapt thoughts and behaviors in response to changing circumstances or new information.

White-collar Workers

Employees who perform professional, managerial, or administrative work, typically in an office or other administrative setting, as opposed to manual labor.