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As businesses rush to cash in on the popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW), que

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Question

As businesses rush to cash in on the popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW), questions have arisen as to what WWW services user would be willing to pay for. A research institute surveyed n=13,000 randomly selected WWW user out of a population of N=1,000,000 users and asked them about their willingness to pay fees for access to web sites. Of these, 2,938 were definitely not willing to pay such fees.

11. What is the sample proportion of users unwilling to pay fees?

A) 0.1300             B) 0.2260             C) 0.2938             D) 0.4424

Explanation / Answer

n=13000

Number of users not willingness to pay fees for access to web sites=2,938

proportion of users unwilling to pay fees =2938 /13000 =0.226