Applied Statistics in Business and Economics
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780077837303
Author: David Doane, Lori Seward Senior Instructor of Operations Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 8.9, Problem 55SE
Inspection of a random sample of 19 aircraft showed that 15 needed repairs to fix a wiring problem that might compromise safety. How large a sample would be needed to estimate the true proportion of jets with the wiring problem, with 90 percent confidence and an error of ±6 percent?
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