TABLE 16-2 Given Below Are the Prices of a Basket of Four

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Short Answer

TABLE 16-2
Given below are the prices of a basket of four food items from 2006 to 2010.

-Referring to Table 16-2, what is the Paasche price index for the basket of four food items in 2009 that consisted of 60 bushels of wheat, 40 bushels of corn, 35 bushels of soybeans and 70 hundredweight of milk in 2009 using 2006 as the base year?

Formulate null and alternative hypotheses for various testing scenarios.

Apply the normal approximation to the binomial distribution in hypothesis testing.

Understand the conditions for using z-tests in hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation.

Determine the appropriate sample size for estimating population proportions.

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