Six People Have Declared Their Intentions to Run for a Trustee

question 96

Multiple Choice

Six people have declared their intentions to run for a trustee seat in the next local election. A
Political poll is conducted during the campaign among 1,020 voters to determine if there is any clear
Preference among the voters. The responses are shown below.
How many degrees of freedom are there?

• A) 1
• B) 2
• C) 3
• D) 4
• E) 5

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Definitions:

Random Variable

A variable whose values depend on the outcomes of a random phenomenon.

Sample Proportion

The ratio of members in a sample that have a particular characteristic to the total number of members in that sample, often used in statistics to estimate population proportions.

Confidence Coefficient

A value, typically close to 1, that specifies the likelihood that a confidence interval will contain the true population parameter.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of a statistic (like a mean or proportion) that would result from taking a large number of samples from a population.