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Q: Using the data, estimate the proportion of new car buyers who prefer foreign cars.

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Q: Wildlife biologist inspects 153 deer taken by hunters and find 32 of them carrying Lyme disease…

A: According to the provided information, n=153x=32p=xn=32153=0.209

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Q: At a certain college, it is estimated that fewer than 25% of the students have cars on campus. Does…

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Q: A poll found that 71% of people out of a survey of size 130 watch at least three hours of TV per…

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Q: Fifty people are selected randomly from a certain population and it is found that 12 people in the…

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Estimation

A new framework of data analysis where the new statistical methods are used for interpreting the results and analyzing the data is known as estimation in statistics.