Question #349351

An Environmentalist is making a survey on the number of households that applies the principles of Waste Management in a certain community. Given the standard deviation of 26, how large a sample must be selected if we want to be 95% confident of finding whether the true mean differs from the sample mean by 1.5 hour?


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2022-06-09T14:49:49-0400

Based on the information provided, the significance level is α=0.05,\alpha = 0.05, and the critical value for a two-tailed test is zc=1.96.z_c =1.96.

E=zc×σnE=z_c\times\dfrac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}n(zc×σE)2n\ge(\dfrac{z_c\times \sigma}{E})^2n(1.96×261.5)2n\ge(\dfrac{1.96\times 26}{1.5})^2

n=1155n=1155

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