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A researcher wishes to estimate the proportion of adults who have high-speed Internet access.

What size sample should be obtained if she wishes the estimate to be within 0.04 with 95% confidence if

(a) she uses a previous estimate of 0.58?

(b) she does not use any prior estimates?\

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Answer from: kdencemartin

a) $n=\frac{0.58(1-0.58)}{(\frac{0.04}{1.96})^2}=584.8836$

And rounded up we have that n=585

b) $n=\frac{0.5(1-0.5)}{(\frac{0.04}{1.96})^2}=600.25$

And rounded up we have that n=601

Step-by-step explanation:

Previous concepts

A confidence interval is "a range of values that’s likely to include a population value with a certain degree of confidence. It is often expressed a % whereby a population means lies between an upper and lower interval".

The margin of error is the range of values below and above the sample statistic in a confidence interval.

Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".

Solution to the problem

The margin of error for the proportion interval is given by this formula:

$ME=z_{\alpha/2}\sqrt{\frac{\hat p (1-\hat p)}{n}}$ (a)

And on this case we have that $ME =\pm 0.04$ and we are interested in order to find the value of n, if we solve n from equation (a) we got:

$n=\frac{\hat p (1-\hat p)}{(\frac{ME}{z})^2}$ (b)

Part a

In order to find the critical value we need to take in count that we are finding the interval for a proportion, so on this case we need to use the z distribution. Since our interval is at 95% of confidence, our significance level would be given by $\alpha=1-0.95=0.05$ and $\alpha/2 =0.025$ . And the critical value would be given by:

$t_{\alpha/2}=-1.96, t_{1-\alpha/2}=1.96$

And replacing into equation (b) the values from part a we got:

$n=\frac{0.58(1-0.58)}{(\frac{0.04}{1.96})^2}=584.8836$

And rounded up we have that n=585

Part b

For this case since we don't have previous info for p we can use $\hat p =0.5$

$n=\frac{0.5(1-0.5)}{(\frac{0.04}{1.96})^2}=600.25$

And rounded up we have that n=601

Answer from: Quest

answer: 590

step-by-step explanation:

Answer from: Quest

x ≥ 18 is your answer

step-by-step explanation:

let "a number" = x

(2/3)x + 17 ≥ 29

isolate the variable (x). do the opposite of pemdas (parenthesis, exponent (& root), multiplication, division, addition, subtraction).

first, subtract 17 from both sides.

(2/3)x + 17 (-17) ≥ 29 (-17)

(2/3)x ≥ 29 - 17

(2/3)x ≥ 12

next, multiply 3/2 to both sides to isolate the x

(3/2)(2/3)x ≥ 12(3/2)

x ≥ 12(3/2)

simplify. multiply, then divide

x ≥ (12 * 3)/2

x ≥ (36)/2

x ≥ 18

x ≥ 18 is your answer

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