Question

The city of Raleigh has 10,100 registered voters. There are two candidates for City

Council in an upcoming election: Brown and Feliz. The day before the election, a
telephone poll of 350 randomly selected registered voters was conducted. 190 said
they'd vote for Brown, 143 said they'd vote for Feliz, and 17 were undecided.
a) Give the sample statistic for the percentage of voters surveyed who said they wou
vote for Brown. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.

Answer 1

54.3%

Explanation:

To find the sample statistic for the percentage of voters surveyed who said they would vote for Brown, we can divide the number of voters who said they would vote for Brown by the total number of surveyed voters, and then multiply by 100 to express the result as a percentage.

In this case, the number of voters who said they would vote for Brown is 190, and the total number of surveyed voters is 350.

Percentage of voters surveyed who said they would vote for Brown = (190 / 350) * 100

Calculating this, we get:

Percentage of voters surveyed who said they would vote for Brown = (0.5428571428571428) * 100 ≈ 54.3%