A newspaper conducted a statewide survey concerning the 1998 race for state senator. The newspaper took a SRS of = 1000 registered voters and found that 520 would vote for the Republican candidate. Let represent the proportion of registered voters in the state who would vote for the Republican candidate.

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Vincent Travis

27 July, 01:16

A newspaper conducted a statewide survey concerning the 1998 race for state senator. The newspaper took a SRS of = 1000 registered voters and found that 520 would vote for the Republican candidate. Let represent the proportion of registered voters in the state who would vote for the Republican candidate.

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Bobby · Answer 1

52% will vote for republican candidate

Step-by-step explanation:

If there are 1000 registered voters and 520 of them will vote for Republican candidate

Then the proportion of this voters that will vote for republican candidate can be give as

(520/1000) * 100% = 52%