Question

HOME Realty claims that it can sell a detached, residential house faster than any other realty company. With the aim of examining HOME's claim, you sample 20customers who sold a detached, residential house through HOME and record the selling times in days) of the houses. Your data are summarized in the followinghistogram:See photoBased on the histogram, find the proportion of selling times in the sample that are greater than or equal to 10 days. Write your answer as a decimal, and do notround your answer.

Answer 1

From the histogram we notice that we have a total of 20 samples, of them 17 houses were sold in more than 10 days. Hence the proportion is:

`(17)/(20)=0.85`

Therefore the proportion is 0.85