Question

The owner of a sporting goods store in Phoenix, Arizona surveys her customers to determine the proportion of customers that play racquetball. After compiling her data, she finds that p^=0.16. Which of the following is the best way for her to interpret this statistic?

A) There is a 16% chance that a randomly customer will say they play racquetball.

B) 16% of the racquetball players in Phoenix, Arizona are customers of hers.

C) 16% of the customers in the sample said they play racquetball.

D)16% of all her customers play racquetball.

Answer 1

C

Explanation:

This is a sample proportion where p^ represents the sample proportion.

If we have p^ = 0.6, it means about 60% of the sample are in agreement with or significant to the case study.

The case study here is 'customers that play racquetball' and p^ was 0.16.

This means that 16% of the customers of the sample said they play racquetball.