Description

Progress Check

Use this activity to assess whether you and your peers can:

  • Calculate the Z-score for a sample proportion.
  • Use probability to interpret the Z-score for a sample proportion.
  • Identify usual and unusual sample proportions in a sampling distribution.

Learn by Doing

Use the rubric at the bottom of this page as a guide for completing this assignment.

Directions

Submit your work:

  • Commit a good-faith effort to address all items in the Prompt section below.

Complete your assigned peer reviews:

  • After you submit your initial good-faith attempt, continue to the ANSWER(S) page and review your instructor’s response. But please do not submit your corrected work yet.
  • Within three days after the due date, return to this assignment and complete your assigned peer reviews (directions (Links to an external site.)).

Submit your corrected work:

  • We all learn from mistakes (our own and our classmates’ mistakes). So please do not immediately correct your own mistakes. If possible, wait until you receive feedback from at least one of your peers.
  • If necessary, correct your work and resubmit the entire assignment. Your instructor will only review and grade your most recent submission, so please do not refer to a previous submission.

Prompt

In the 2008 presidential election, newspapers reported that Obama received 40% of the white male vote. If this is true, what is the probability that a random sample of 200 white male voters had less than 35% voting for Obama?

Normal Distribution Calculator—i have attached it

Peer Reviewed Assignment

Peer Reviewed Assignment

Criteria Ratings Pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAddressing the Prompt

8 pts

Full Marks

All parts of the Prompt are addressed. Answers are correct. Statistical vocabulary is used appropriately. Writing is clear and thought process is easy to follow.

5 pts

Partial Credit

Some parts of the prompt are not addressed, are incorrect, or are unclear.

0 pts

No Marks

The prompt is not addressed.

8 pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIndividual Penalty

0 pts

No individual penalty

-1 pts

Individual penalty.

Please see the instructor comments for more information.

0 pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomePeer Reviews

2 pts

Full Marks

You completed all assigned peer reviews (maximum of 2). For each peer review, the points you assigned in the rubric are appropriate. You included comments explaining the score you posted in the rubric. If you deducted points in the rubric, your comments explain what the author needs to do to earn a higher grade when the teacher grades the assignment.

1 pts

Partial Credit

Committed a good-faith effort to provide a high-quality peer review, but many necessary instructive comments are missing.

0 pts

No Marks

No peer review provided or the comments are not instructive.

2 pts

Total Points: 10