How large of a random sample is required to insure that the margin of error is 0.08 when estimating the proportion of college professors that read science fiction novels with 95onfidence?

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151 is required random sample

Margin of Error

The margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in the results of a survey. The larger the margin of error, the less confidence one should have that a poll result would reflect the result of a census of the entire population.

Given,

Margin  of error, ME = 0.08

Confidence Interval, CI = 95%

Z Score against confidence interval = 1.96

We know that,

[tex]1.96\sqrt{\frac{(0.5)(0.5)}{n} }[/tex]≤ 0.08

From this determine n,

[tex]\sqrt{\frac{0.25}{n} }[/tex]≤ 0.040816

[tex]\frac{0.25}{n}[/tex]≤ 0.00166599

150.06≤n

That is 151 is required random sample.

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