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Chapter 8: Q.8.7 (page 456)

The population standard deviation for the height of high school basketball players is three inches. If we want to be 95% confident that the sample mean height is within one inch of the true population mean height, how many randomly selected students must be surveyed?

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The required sample size is35

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01

Given Information

It is given that,

s =3

EBM = 1

and the confidence level is 95%

02

Explanation

If x-is used as an estimate of 渭, we can be 100(1-伪) % confident that the error bound EBM when the sample size is

n=(z伪2蟽EBM)2 (1)

We know that

1. standard deviation is s= 3

2. the error bound is EBM =1

3. and the confidence level is 95%

03

The required sample size

Therefore,

伪2=1鈭�0.952=0.025鈬�z0.025=1.96

Then, from Equation (1) is

n=(1.96脳31)2=34.57

and because n must be an integer,the required sample size is

n=35

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