a Claim about a
Question 11, 8.1.5
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Claim: A minority of adults would erase all of their personal information online if they could. A software firm survey of 649 randomly selected adults showed that $38 \%$ of them would erase all of their personal information online if they could. Complete parts (a) and (b) below.
a. Express the original claim in symbolic form. Let the parameter represent the adults that would erase their personal information.
(Type an integer or a decimal. Do not round.)
Answer
The original claim is that a minority of adults would erase all of their personal information online if they could. This is equivalent to saying that less than 50% of adults would erase all of their personal information online if they could. In symbolic form, we let \(p\) represent the proportion of adults that would erase their personal information. Therefore, the claim can be expressed as \(p < 0.5\).
Step 1 ：The original claim is that a minority of adults would erase all of their personal information online if they could. This is equivalent to saying that less than 50% of adults would erase all of their personal information online if they could. In symbolic form, we let \(p\) represent the proportion of adults that would erase their personal information. Therefore, the claim can be expressed as \(p < 0.5\).
