A Researcher Wants to Estimate the Proportion of Manufacturing Companies

question 57

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to estimate the proportion of manufacturing companies that use the Six Sigma method. For this purpose, she takes a random sample of 50 manufacturing companies and finds out that 28 of them employ this method. The point estimate for the proportion of the population that uses this method is ___.

• A) 0.88
• B) 0.56
• C) 0.44
• D) 0.28
• E) 0.22

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