using a simple random sample of 500 households: 240 of the sample households had internet access.   Please enter your answers as decimals between 0 and 1, rounding to 2 decimal places. Based on the new study, the percentage of households in the town with internet access is estimated as ________. This estimate is likely to be off by __________ or so. Fill in the blanks.

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The Residential Energy Consumption Survey found in 2001 that 47% of American households had internet access. A market survey organization repeated this study in a certain town with 25,000 households, using a simple random sample of 500 households: 240 of the sample households had internet access.  

Please enter your answers as decimals between 0 and 1, rounding to 2 decimal places.

Based on the new study, the percentage of households in the town with internet access is estimated as ________. This estimate is likely to be off by __________ or so.

Fill in the blanks.

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