Elwin Osbourne, CIO at GFS, Inc., is studying employee use of GFS e-mail for non-business communications.A random sample of 200 e-mail messages was selected.Thirty of the messages were not business related.The point estimate for this population proportion is _______.
A)0.150
B)0.300
C)0.182
D)0.667
E)0.786

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The point estimate for the population proportion is calculated by dividing the number of non-business related messages by the total number of messages sampled. So, 30/200 = 0.150.