A Committee Studying Employer-Employee Relations Proposed That Each Employee Would

question 82

Short Answer

A committee studying employer-employee relations proposed that each employee would rate his or her immediate supervisor and in turn the supervisor would rate each employee. To find reactions regarding the proposal, 120 office personnel and 160 plant personnel were selected at random. Seventy-eight of the office personnel and 90 of the plant personnel were in favor of the proposal. What is the pooled estimate of the population proportion?

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