Marisol is trying to decide which job to take. She is offered three jobs. The store manager has a salary of $32,500. The

What is the value of x in the equation 25x2 = 16?

valentina_108 [34]

25x2 = 16
x^2 = 16/25
x^2 = 4^2/5^2
x = 4/5

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In a class, 4/5 of the students have mathematical instruments. 1/4 of these students have lost their protractors. What fraction

Novay_Z [31]

Answer:

$\frac{11}{20}$

Step-by-step explanation:

$\frac{4}{5} - \frac{1}{4}$ Subtract the students who don't have protractors from the students who have mathematical instruments.

$\frac{11}{20}$

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It is believed that as many as 23% of adults over 50 never graduated from high school. We wish to see if this percentage is the

JulijaS [17]

Answer:

1) n=48

2) n=298

3) n=426

Step-by-step explanation:

Previous concepts

A confidence interval is "a range of values that’s likely to include a population value with a certain degree of confidence. It is often expressed a % whereby a population means lies between an upper and lower interval".

The margin of error is the range of values below and above the sample statistic in a confidence interval.

Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".

$p$ represent the real population proportion of interest

$\hat p$ represent the estimated proportion for the sample

n is the sample size required (variable of interest)

$z$ represent the critical value for the margin of error

The population proportion have the following distribution

$p \sim N(p,\sqrt{\frac{\hat p(1-\hat p)}{n}})$

Part 1

In order to find the critical value we need to take in count that we are finding the interval for a proportion, so on this case we need to use the z distribution. Since our interval is at 90% of confidence, our significance level would be given by $\alpha=1-0.90=0.10$ and $\alpha/2 =0.05$ . And the critical value would be given by:

$z_{\alpha/2}=-1.64, z_{1-\alpha/2}=1.64$

The margin of error for the proportion interval is given by this formula:

$ME=z_{\alpha/2}\sqrt{\frac{\hat p (1-\hat p)}{n}}$ (a)

And on this case we have that $ME =\pm 0.1$ and we are interested in order to find the value of n, if we solve n from equation (a) we got:

$n=\frac{\hat p (1-\hat p)}{(\frac{ME}{z})^2}$ (b)

We can assume that the estimated proportion is 0.23 for the 25 to 30 group. And replacing into equation (b) the values from part a we got:

$n=\frac{0.23(1-0.23)}{(\frac{0.1}{1.64})^2}=47.63$

And rounded up we have that n=48

Part 2

The margin of error on this case changes to 0.04 so if we use the same formula but changing the value for ME we got:

$n=\frac{0.23(1-0.23)}{(\frac{0.04}{1.64})^2}=297.7$

And rounded up we have that n=298

Part 3

In order to find the critical value we need to take in count that we are finding the interval for a proportion, so on this case we need to use the z distribution. Since our interval is at 95% of confidence, our significance level would be given by $\alpha=1-0.95=0.05$ and $\alpha/2 =0.025$ . And the critical value would be given by: