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Unmarried AmericansNearly one-half of Americans aged 25 to
Chapter 7, Problem 19E(choose chapter or problem)
Problem 19E
Unmarried AmericansNearly one-half of Americans aged 25 to 29 are unmarried. How large a sample is necessary to estimate the true proportion of unmarried Americans in this age group within 2½ percentage points with 90% confidence?
Source: Time magazine. Oct 2006.
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QUESTION:
Problem 19E
Unmarried AmericansNearly one-half of Americans aged 25 to 29 are unmarried. How large a sample is necessary to estimate the true proportion of unmarried Americans in this age group within 2½ percentage points with 90% confidence?
Source: Time magazine. Oct 2006.
ANSWER:
Solution :
Step 1 of 1:
Our goal is :
We need to find how large a sample.
We know that aged 25 to 29 are unmarried.
Here E denotes the age group within percentage.
E =
E =
From the given information we know that confidence