Question #349352

A medical practitioner wants to estimate the mean systolic blood pressure in pre-school children with inbom heart disease. He plans on using a 99% confidence interval and a margin of error of 5 units. The standard deviation of systolic blood pressures in pre-school children with inborn heart disease is 20. How many children should be enrolled in the study?


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2022-06-09T14:35:31-0400

E=z0.005σnE=z_{0.005}\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}

n=(z0.005σE)2=(2.576205)2=107n=(\frac{z_{0.005}\sigma}{E})^2=(\frac{2.576*20}{5})^2=107


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