1225  children in 4  schools carried out a survey based  on  their schools on   drug related problems .The  children identified " frequent  drug taking " as  having 5  or more drugs in a row  3  or more times   in the  past 2  weeks.Hence  198 children werre  idenitified as  frequent  drug takers.   is the  sample  size  large enough to  make  a  valid  confidence  interval for  the   proportion (x) of students  who are  frequent  drug takers?

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1225  children in 4  schools carried out a survey based  on  their schools on   drug related problems .The  children identified " frequent  drug taking " as  having 5  or more drugs in a row  3  or more times   in the  past 2  weeks.Hence  198 children werre  idenitified as  frequent  drug takers.

 

is the  sample  size  large enough to  make  a  valid  confidence  interval for  the   proportion (x) of students  who are  frequent  drug takers?

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