Question

About 25% of young Americans have delayed starting a family due to the continued economic slump. Determine if the following statements are true or false, and explain your reasoning.a. The distribution of sample proportions of young Americans who have delayed starting a family due to the continued economic slump in random samples of size 12 is right skewed.b. In order for the distribution of sample proportions of young Americans who have delayed starting a family due to the continued economic slump to be approximatly normal, we need random samples where the sample size is at least 40.c. A random sample of 50 young Americans where 20% have delayed starting a family due to the continued economic slump would be considered unusual.d. A random sample of 150 young Americans where 20% have delayed starting a family due to the continued economic slump would be considered unusual.e. Tripling the sample size will reduce the standard error of the sample proportion by one-third.

Answer 1

Answer:

a. True

b. true

c. false

d. false

e. false

Step-by-step explanation:

a. true

polutation = 25% = 0.25

sample = n= 12

n x p

= 12 x o. 25 = 3 and 3 is less than 10

12(1 - p)

= 12 x 0.75

= 9 and is less than 10

b. True

the sample distribution of the population is normal when

sample size x population > or equal to 10

40 x 0.75

= 30 and 30 is greater than 10

c. false

50 x 0.25 = 12.5

50 x 0.20 = 10

z = 10 - 12.5/sqrt(12.5)

= -2.5/3.54

= -0.70

H0: Young american family who delayed

H1: young american family who did not delay

p(z = -0.70)

0.2420>0.005

therefore we accept the null hypothesis

d. false

150 x 0.20 = 30

150 x 0.75 = 37.5

z = 30 - 37.5/sqrt(37.5) = -7.5/6.12 = -1.22

p(z = -1.22) = 0.1112 > 0.05

therefore we do not reject the null hypothesis

e. false

se1 = sqrt(p(1-p)/n

se2 = sqrt(p(1-p)/3n

se2 = 1/sqrt(3)se2