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8.3 Exercise 10

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Suppose a mobile phone company wants to determine the current percentage of customers aged 50+ who use text messaging on their cell phones. How many customers aged 50+ should the company survey in order to be 90% confident that the estimated (sample) proportion is within three percentage points of the true population proportion of customers aged 50+ who use text messaging on their cell phones.

OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e, 8.3 A Population Proportion, exercise 10

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