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8.4 Exercise 43

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Construct a 95% Confidence Interval for the true mean age of Winter Foothill College students by working out then answering the next seven exercises.

Find the value of the sample size needed to be 90% confident that the sample proportion and the population proportion are within 1% of each other. The sample proportion is 0.50. Note: Round all fractions up for n.

OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics 2e, 8.4 Calculating the Sample Size n: Continuous and Binary Random Variables, exercise 43

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