Question

what proportion of students who take intro stats at the university of florida have never taken statistics before? is it more than half of them? a study of sta 2122 students found that 438 out of 654 students had never taken a statistics course before. match the following symbols with the correct answer.

Answer 1

Using proportions, it is found that:

The proportion of students who take intro stats at the university of Florida have never taken statistics before is 0.6697. Since this proportion is greater than 0.5, it can be said that it is more than half of them.

A proportion is the number of desired outcomes divided by the number of total outcomes.

In this problem:

• 438 of the students had never taken a statistics course before, which is the number of desired outcomes.
• Sample of 654, which is the number of total outcomes.

The proportion is:

$p = \frac{D}{T} = \frac{438}{654} = 0.6697$

The proportion of students who take intro stats at the university of Florida have never taken statistics before is 0.6697. Since this proportion is greater than 0.5, it can be said that it is more than half of them.

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