Suppose a clothing store wants to determine the current percentage of customers who are over the age of forty. How many customers should the company survey in order to be 90% confident that the estimated (sample) proportion is within 4 percentage points of the true population proportion of customers who are over the age of forty?   z0.10 z0.05 z0.025 z0.01 z0.005 1.282 1.645 1.960 2.326 2.576

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Suppose a clothing store wants to determine the current percentage of customers who are over the age of forty. How many customers should the company survey in order to be 90% confident that the estimated (sample) proportion is within 4 percentage points of the true population proportion of customers who are over the age of forty?
 

z0.10 z0.05 z0.025 z0.01 z0.005
1.282 1.645 1.960 2.326 2.576
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