The city of Raleigh has 9500 registered voters. There are two candidates for cit

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The city of Raleigh has 9500 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. 112 said they'd vote for Brown, 207 said they'd vote for Feliz, and 31 were undecided. a. What is the population of this survey? b. What is the size of the population? c. What is the size of the sample? d. Give the sample statistic for the proportion of voters surveyed who said they'd vote for Brown Based on this sample, we might expect how many of the 9500 voters to vote for Brown? e.

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a) Population of the survey - all registered voters in the city of Raleigh

b) Size of population = 9500

c) Size of sample - 350

d)
pcap = 112/350 = 0.32

e)
9500 * 0.32 = 3040
3040 number of voters will vote for Brown

f)
Age of subjects is quantitative data

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