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Chapter 1.2, Problem 17PB
Comparing polls The following table shows the result of the 2012 presidential election along with the vote predicted by several organizations in the days before the election. The
Source: http://ncpp.org/files/Presidential%20National%20Polls% 202012%200103%20Full.pdf
- a. Treating the sample sizes as 1000 each, find the approximate margin of error.
- b. Do most of the predictions fall within the margin of error of the actual vote percentages? Considering the relative sizes of the sample, the population, and the undecided factor, would you say that these polls had good accuracy?
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