A school has 1600 students and they are going to vote as to whether they will completely convert the school completely off fossil fuels. How many students would you have to poll to be 95% confident of the outcome within +/- 2% of the vote?

A school has 1600 students and they are going to vote as to whether they will completely convert the school completely off fossil fuels. How many students would you have to poll to be 95% confident of the outcome within +/- 2% of the vote?

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

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Chapter10: Statistics

Section10.6: Summarizing Categorical Data

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