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There are 44,000 adults living in Palm City. In examining attitudes toward the news, a research group asked a random sample of Palm City adults "What is your main source of news?" The results are shown below.

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There are an estimated 9856 adults whose main source of news is newspapers or the radio.

How to predict the number of adults whose main source is newspapers or radio

From the question, we have the following parameters that can be used in our computation:

The table of values

Where,

Total adults in the sample = 56 + 86 + 128 + 20 + 49

Total adults in the sample = 339

The proportion of adults in the sample whose main source of news is newspapers or the radio is

Proportion = (56 + 20) / 339 = 0.224

This means that

Estimate = 0.224 * 44000

Estimate = 9856

Hence, there are an estimated 9856 adults whose main source of news is newspapers or the radio.

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There are 44000 adults living in Grand City. In examining attitudes toward the news, a research group asked a random sample of Grand City adults "What is your main source of news?" The results are shown below.

Newspapers 56

Internet 86

Television 128

Radio 20

Other 49

Based on the sample, predict the number of adults in Grand City whose main source of news is newspapers or the radio. Round your answer to the nearest whole number. Do not round any intermediate calculations.

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