The Manager of a Department Store Wants to Determine the Proportion

question 10

Short Answer

The manager of a department store wants to determine the proportion of people who use the store's credit cards for their purchases.What sample size should he take so that, at 95% confidence, the error will not be more than 6%?

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Definitions:

Negation

The logical operation that turns a proposition into its opposite, usually expressed in English by "not".

Consequent

The outcome or result in a conditional statement that follows the condition stated in the "if" clause.

Self-Contradiction

A statement that inherently contradicts itself, asserting and denying the same thing, thereby rendering it logically impossible.

Conditional

A statement that establishes a cause-and-effect relationship between two propositions.