A polling agency wishes to take a sample of voters in a given state large enough that the probability will be 0.95 that the sample mean will not differ from the population mean by more than 25% of the standard deviation. How large a sample should he take?

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A polling agency wishes to take a sample of voters in a given state large enough that the probability will
be 0.95 that the sample mean will not differ from the population mean by more than 25% of the standard
deviation. How large a sample should he take?
Transcribed Image Text:A polling agency wishes to take a sample of voters in a given state large enough that the probability will be 0.95 that the sample mean will not differ from the population mean by more than 25% of the standard deviation. How large a sample should he take?
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