document.write( "Question 1203047: One of the greatest problems in marketing research and other survey fields is
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\n" ); document.write( "answer questions. A market researcher believes that a respondent will answer all questions with probability 0.94 if found at home. He further believes that the probability that a given person will be found at home is 0.65. Given this information, what percentage of the interviews will be successfully completed.
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i believe it will be .65 * .94 = .611.
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\n" ); document.write( "65% of them are at home at the time of the canvasing = 650.
\n" ); document.write( "of those 650, 94% answer all questions = .94 * 650 = 611.
\n" ); document.write( "out of the 1000 people who were canvased, 611 answered all questions.
\n" ); document.write( "350 didn't answer because they weren't home when canvased.
\n" ); document.write( "39 didn't answer all questions even if they were home when canvassed.
\n" ); document.write( "that 611 who were home when canvased and answered all the questions.\r
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