A television network is deciding whether or not to give its newest television show a spot during prime viewing time at night. For this to happen, it will have to move one of its most viewed shows to another slot. The network conducts a survey asking its viewers which show they would rather watch. The network will keep its current lineup of shows unless the majority of the customers want to watch the new show. The network receives 827 responses, of which 428 indicate that they would like to see the new show in the lineup.

b. Calculate the value of the test statistic and the $p$-value.

A machine that is programmed to package $1.20$ pounds of cereal in each cereal box is being tested for its accuracy. In a sample of 36 cereal boxes, the mean and the standard deviation are calculated as $1.22$ pounds and $0.06$ pound, respectively.

c. At the $5 \%$ level of significance, can you conclude that the machine is working improperly? Explain.

During one year, people in the United States older than 18 years old watched a total of 342 billion hours of television. The population of the United States older than 18 years old was about 209 million people.

a. On average, how many hours of television did each person older than 18 years old watch that year? Round to the nearest hour.

b. On average, how many hours per week did each person older than 18 years old watch that year? Round to the nearest hour.

In a 1998 survey, parents were asked what media influence on their children most concerned them. The results are shown in the bar graph. Find the experimental probability that a randomly selected parent is most concerned about the given topic.

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Suppose that a very small economy produces only televisions and computers. Determine nominal GDP and real GDP in Year 4, using the following information: In Year I, the base year, W computers sold at $2,000 each, and 15 televisions sold at S500 each. In Year 4,17 computers sold at$2,200 each and 20 televisions sold at $550 each.

Identify an advertisement for a product you would consider buying. If the ad appeared in a newspaper or magazine, cut it out and bring it to class. If it appeared online, print it out. If it was aired on the radio or television, either record the ad or write a description of it and bring it to class. Answer the following questions about your ad:

If the ad appeared on radio or television, at what time and during what program did it appear? If it appeared in print or online, in what publication or website did it appear? Why do you think the advertiser chose to run the ad at this time and place, and in this context?

The percents $C$ of households in the United States that owned a television and had cable from 1980 to 2003 can be modeled by

$$\begin{aligned} &C=0.0031 t^3-0.216 t^2+5.54 t+19.1, \\ &0 \leq t \leq 23 \end{aligned}$$

where $t$ is the year, with $t=0$ corresponding to 1980. Complete the table to determine the years during which the percent of households that own a television and have cable will be between $85 \%$ and $100 \%$.

Un(e) de tes camarades et toi vous discutez d'une recente catastrophe naturelle dont on a parle a la television ou dans les journaux. Chacun de vous raconte ce qu'il a appris.

The following are the numbers of hours of television watched during a given week by the students in Mrs. Karnes’s fourth grade class:

(a) Make a dot plot to organize and display these data.
(b) From the dot plot, estimate the average number of hours per week the students in Mrs. Karnes’s class watch television

Identify and rewrite the words that contain capitalization errors in the following sentence.

Despite my argument that we live in portland, oregon, not denver, my parents insisted that I stop watching sports on television and start playing them.

Decide whether the following statement is true or false:
We know that watching television causes children to have shorter attention spans because many teachers report that this is what they see in the children in their classrooms.$\underline{\phantom{blanks}}$

To install a satellite television transmitter, the technician digs a cylindrical hole that is 3 feet in diameter with a depth of 5 feet. How much dirt in pounds must be removed if 1 cubic foot of dirt weighs 98 pounds?

A shipment of 7 television sets contains 2 defective sets. A hotel makes a random purchase of 3 of the sets. If x is the number of defective sets purchased by the hotel, find the probability distribution of X. Express the result graphically as a probability histogram

On the line in the sentence below, write the form of sit or set that correctly and sensibly completes the sentence. Example 1. Should Robert be$\underline{\text{sitting}}$ this close to the television?

We need to arrive early so that we can ________up the chairs.