Question

Statistics Canada reports that 13.7% of adult Canadians aged 15 or older report being limited in their daily activities due to a disability. If you take an SRS of 5000 Canadians aged 15 and over, what is the approximate distribution of the number in your sample who report being limited in their daily activities due to a disability?

A. Normal distribution
B. binomial distribution
C. There is no distribution that approximates this situation well
D. uniform distribution

Answer 1

A. Normal distribution

Explanation:

Given that Statistics Canada reports that 13.7% of adult Canadians aged 15 or older report being limited in their daily activities due to a disability.

If you take an SRS of 5000 Canadians aged 15 and over, the approximate distribution of the number in your sample will be the proportion sample would be normal with mean = sample proportion

So answer would be

A. Normal distribution