Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel (with XLSTAT Education Edition Printed Access Card) (MindTap Course List)
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Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 8, Problem 57SE
The National Center for Education Statistics reported that 47% of college students work to pay for tuition and living expenses. Assume that a sample of 450 college students was used in the study.
- a. Provide a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of college students who work to pay for tuition and living expenses.
- b. Provide a 99% confidence interval for the population proportion of college students who work to pay for tuition and living expenses.
- c. What happens to the margin of error as the confidence is increased from 95% to 99%?
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Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel (with XLSTAT Education Edition Printed Access Card) (MindTap Course List)
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