As a General Rule, the Normal Distribution Is Used to Approximate

question 107

Multiple Choice

As a general rule, the normal distribution is used to approximate the sampling distribution of the sample proportion only if:

• A) the sample size n is greater than 30
• B) the sample size n is greater than 100
• C) the population proportion p is close to 0.50
• D) the underlying population is normal
• E) np and n(1 - p) are both greater than or equal to 5

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