A private opinion poll is conducted for a politician to dete…

A private opinion poll is conducted for a politician to determine what proportion of the population favors adding more national parks. How large a sample is needed in order to be 99% confident that the sample proportion will not differ from the true proportion by more than 5%?

Smith is a weld inspector at a shipyard. He knows from keepi…

Smith is a weld inspector at a shipyard. He knows from keeping track of good and substandard welds that for the afternoon shift 5% of all welds done will be substandard. If Smith checks 300 of the 7500 welds completed that shift, what is the probability that he will find more than 25 substandard welds?

A national caterer determined that 87% of the people who sam…

A national caterer determined that 87% of the people who sampled their food said that it was delicious. A random sample of 144 people is obtained from a population of 5000. The 144 people are asked to sample the caterer’s food. Will the distribution of the sample proportion saying that the food is delicious be approximately normal?