The Proportion of Items in a Population That Possess a Specific

question 86

Multiple Choice

The proportion of items in a population that possess a specific attribute is known to be 0.70. If a simple random sample of size n = 100 is selected and the proportion of items in the sample that contain the attribute of interest is 0.65, what is the sampling error?

• A) -0.03
• B) -0.05
• C) 0.08
• D) 0.01

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