To obtain an estimate of the proportion of ‘full time’ university students who have a part time job in excess of 20 hours per week, the student union decides to interview a random sample of full time students. They want the length of their 95% confidence interval to be no greater than 0.1. and assume variance is equal to 4. What size sample, n should be taken?

To obtain an estimate of the proportion of ‘full time’ university students who have a part time job in excess of 20 hours per week, the student union decides to interview a random sample of full time students. They want the length of their 95% confidence interval to be no greater than 0.1. and assume variance is equal to 4. What size sample, n should be taken?

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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