Elwin Osbourne, CIO at GFS, Inc

question 77

Multiple Choice

Elwin Osbourne, CIO at GFS, Inc., is studying employee use of GFS e-mail for non-business communications.He plans to use a 98% confidence interval estimate of the proportion of e-mail messages that are non-business; he will accept a 0.05 error.Previous studies indicate that approximately 30% of employee e-mail is not business related.Elwin should sample approximately _______ e-mail messages.

• A)323
• B)12
• C)456
• D)14
• E)100

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Definitions:

Capital Account

The capital account in financial accounting represents where adjustments in assets and liabilities are recorded, correlating to transactions involving investments or loans.

Liquidating Partnership

A process where a partnership ends its operations, sells off its assets, and pays its liabilities, distributing the remaining assets to the partners based on their share in the partnership.

Insolvent

A financial state where an entity cannot meet its financial obligations as they come due.

Personal Creditors

Individuals or entities to whom a person owes money, as opposed to business or corporate creditors.