Question

Provide a complete response for the following:

A large university provides housing for 10% of its graduate students to live on campus. The university's housing office thinks that the percentage of graduate students looking for housing on campus may be more than 10%. The housing office decides to survey a random sample of graduate students, and 62 of the 481 respondents say that they are looking for housing on campus.

Answer 1

a. On the basis of the survey data, would you recommend that the housing office consider increasing the amount of housing on campus available to graduate students? Give appropriate evidence to support your recommendation.

b. In addition to the 481 graduate students who responded to the survey, there were 19 who did not respond. If these 19 had responded, is it possible that your recommendation would have changed? Explain.

Answer 2

@AravindG @Mertsj

Answer 3

What do you think?

Answer 4

im not really sure

Answer 5

What percent said they were looking for housing?

Answer 6

62/481

Answer 7

13%?

Answer 8

What percent is that?

Answer 9

12.8

Answer 10

And they provide housing for what percent?

Answer 11

10 percent

Answer 12

@Mertsj

Answer 13

So 12.8 percent are looking for housing...they provide housing for 10 percent. Do you think they should increase their housing?

Answer 14

Yes!

Answer 15

b. In addition to the 481 graduate students who responded to the survey, there were 19 who did not respond. If these 19 had responded, is it possible that your recommendation would have changed? Explain.

Answer 16

I guess you can recommend whatever you want. That is a pretty small number that is looking for on campus housing. I would not want to start a building project for that few students. Especially since the number will vary from year to year and since building housing is very expensive.

Answer 17

thats true..... yeah, i agree with that

Answer 18

I would assume that the ones who did not respond are not interested.

Answer 19

is that b? @Mertsj

Answer 20

That's what I think.

Answer 21

sorry I am late :/

Answer 22

Its ok, are u here now?

Answer 23

The attached file goes into some detail on how to do this problem.
The answer starts on its page 3 (labeled page 9). To follow the write-up you must have some familiarity on how to do these type problems.