TABLE 8-11 a Poll Was Conducted by the Marketing Department of a of a Video

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TABLE 8-11
A poll was conducted by the marketing department of a video game company to determine the popularity of a new game that was targeted to be launched in three months.Telephone interviews with 1,500 young adults were conducted which revealed that 49% said they would purchase the new game.The margin of error was ±3 percentage points.
-Referring to Table 8-11,what is the needed sample size to obtain a 95% confidence interval in estimating the percentage of the targeted young adults who will purchase the new game to within ±5% if you do not have the information on the 49% in the interviews who said that they would purchase the new game?

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Definitions:

Futures Contracts

Contracts that obligate the purchase or sale of a specific commodity or financial asset at an agreed-upon price at a future date.

Actual Delivery

The physical transfer of a security or commodity from seller to buyer, which finalizes the transaction process.

Result

The outcome or conclusion of a process, experiment, or event, often used to assess performance or effectiveness.

Percentage

A portion or share expressed as a fraction of 100.