Use the following information to answer the next two exercises: Five hundred and eleven (511) homes in a certain southern California community are randomly surveyed to determine if they meet minimal earthquake preparedness recommendations. One hundred seventy-three (173) of the homes surveyed met the minimum recommendations for earthquake preparedness, and 338 did not.
You plan to conduct a survey on your college campus to learn about the political awareness of students. You want to estimate the true proportion of college students on your campus who voted in the 2020 presidential election with 95% confidence and a margin of error no greater than five percent. How many students must you interview?
OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e, 8.3 A Population Proportion, exercise 61