Volunteering: The General Social Survey asked 1309 people whether they performed any volunteer work during the past year. A total of 518 people said they did. Part: 0 / 30 of 3 Parts Complete Part 1 of 3 (a) Find a point estimate for the population proportion of people who performed volunteer work in the past year. Round the answer to at least three decimal places. The point estimate for the proportion of people who performed volunteer work in the past year is .

The point estimate for the population proportion of people who performed volunteer work in the past year is 0.396.

Step-by-step explanation:

Point estimate of a proportion:

Proportion is the number of desired outcomes divided by the number of total outcomes.

518 out of 1309 people performed volunteer work:

This means that:

The point estimate for the population proportion of people who performed volunteer work in the past year is 0.396.

dalila is incorrect. the whisker on the left is very long, going all the way out to 5. the whisker goes from 5 to 30, so it has a spread of 25. the rest of the box plot values are closer together, so 5 is an outlier