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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1P

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A government official is in charge of allocating social programs throughout the city of Vancouver. He will decide where these social outreach programs should be located based on the percentage of residents living below the poverty line in each region of the city. He takes a simple random sample of 122 people living in Gastown and finds that 20 have an annual income that is below the poverty line. Suppose that the government official wants to re-estimate the population proportion and wishes for his 90% confidence interval to have a margin of error no larger than 0.03. How large a sample should he take to achieve this? Please carry answers to at least six decimal places in intermediate steps, and use at least 3 decimal places in your critical value. Sample size =

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$g i v e n d a t a n = 122 x = 20 ∴ p o i n t e s t i m a t e f o r p o p u l a t i o n p r o p o r t i o n, \hat{p} = \frac{x}{n} = \frac{20}{122} = 0.163934 n o w r e s a m p l e, 90 % c i, E = 0.03, n = ?$