Question #339389

A Research Director of a certain university wants to replicate the result of the study 10 years ago with a standard deviation of 0.14. He wants to estimate the population mean to within an error of 0.04 of its true value. Using 95% confidence level, what is the sample size that he needs?


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Expert's answer
2022-05-11T09:43:35-0400

The critical value for α=0.05\alpha = 0.05 is zc=z1α/2=1.96.z_c = z_{1-\alpha/2} =1.96.

E=zc×σn0.04E=z_c\times\dfrac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}\le0.04

n(1.960.140.04)2n\ge(\dfrac{1.96\cdot0.14}{0.04})^2

n48n\ge48


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