A researcher wishes to estimate the number of households with two computers. How large a sample is needed in order to be 98% confident that the sample proportion will not differ from the true proportion by more than 2%? A previous study indicates that the proportion of households with two computers is 20%.

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Section11.4: Collecting Data
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A researcher wishes to estimate the number of households with two computers. How large a sample is needed in order to be 98% confident that the sample proportion will not differ from the true proportion by more than 2%? A previous study indicates that the proportion of households with two computers is 20%.

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