You and your friend want to find the proportion of yellow candies in a candy machine. You take a sample of 30 candies. Your sample proportion
of yellow candies is 15%. Your friend takes 50 random samples of size 30
and her average proportion is 11%.
What is your estimate of the true proportion of yellow candies in the
machine? Why?

This question is solved using sampling, and proportions concepts.

The sample proportion is the point estimate for the population proportion, and we use this to find the estimate, which we find as 15% = 0.15, which is the sample proportion.

Proportion:

A proportion is the number of desired outcomes divided by the number of total outcomes.

In this question:

You take a sample of 30 candies. Your sample proportion

of yellow candies is 15%.

Thus, the point estimate of the true proportion of yellow candies in the sample, according to your sample, is of 15%.

A similar problem can be found at:

the slope of the first function is -3. (3/1)

the slope of the second function is 1. (13-10/6-3).

since |-3| is greater than |1|, the function with the steepest slope is the first.