A pharmacist wishes to determine the percentage of adults who take vitamins. He wishes to be...
A pharmacist wishes to determine the percentage of
adults who take vitamins. He wishes to be 99% confident that the
estimate is within 2 percentage points of the true proportion. A
recent study of 180 adults showed that 25% took vitamins.
a. How large should the sample size be?
b. If no estimate of the sample proportion is available, how large
should the sample be?
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