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THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING:
It has been reported that 1.7% of the work force will retire this year.Consider a random sample of 200 workers.
-What is an estimate of the standard deviation of the number of people who will retire this year? Use the Poisson approximation to the binomial.


Definitions:

Sample Proportions

The fraction or percentage of samples in a category or exhibiting a characteristic, used to estimate population proportions.

Population Proportions

Refers to the share or percentage of a specific subgroup within the overall population.

Variance

Variance quantifies the spread of data points around the average value, showing the extent of their dispersion.

Sample Proportions

The percentage of times a characteristic occurs in a sample as compared to the total sample size.

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