A University Dean Is Interested in Determining the Proportion of Students

question 48

Multiple Choice

A university dean is interested in determining the proportion of students who receive some sort of financialaid. Rather than examine the records for all students, the dean randomly selects 200 students and finds that 118of them are receiving financial aid. If the dean wanted to estimate the proportion of all students receivingfinancial aid to within 1% with 90% reliability, how many students would need to be sampled?

• A) 6546
• B) 1584
• C) 3980
• D) 66

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