A member of the Seattle City Council wants to build a confidence interval estimate of the mean monthly earnings of city council members in large cities like Seattle. The desired accuracy in estimating the mean monthly earnings is $90 and a 98% confidence level is desired. The council member found a report by the Department of Labor saying that the standard deviation of monthly earnings of council members in large cities was $800. How big a sample size would be required to build this desired confidence interval estimate?

A member of the Seattle City Council wants to build a confidence interval estimate of the mean monthly earnings of city council members in large cities like Seattle. The desired accuracy in estimating the mean monthly earnings is $90 and a 98% confidence level is desired. The council member found a report by the Department of Labor saying that the standard deviation of monthly earnings of council members in large cities was $800. How big a sample size would be required to build this desired confidence interval estimate?

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

10th Edition

ISBN:9780470458365

Author:Erwin Kreyszig

Publisher:Erwin Kreyszig

Chapter2: Second-order Linear Odes

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