A principal of a large high school wants to estimate the true proportion of high school students who use the community’s public library. To do so, he selects a random sample of 50 students and asks them if they use the community’s public library. The 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of all students who use the community’s public library is 0.25 to 0.34. If the principal had used a sample size of 200 students rather than 50 students, how would the length of the second interval compare to the original interval?

A principal of a large high school wants to estimate the true proportion of high school students who use the community’s public library. To do so, he selects a random sample of 50 students and asks them if they use the community’s public library. The 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of all students who use the community’s public library is 0.25 to 0.34. If the principal had used a sample size of 200 students rather than 50 students, how would the length of the second interval compare to the original interval?

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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