A University Dean Is Interested in Determining the Proportion of Students

question 192

Multiple Choice

A university dean is interested in determining the proportion of students who receive some sort of financial aid. Rather than examine the records for all students, the dean randomly selects 200 students
And finds that 118 of them are receiving financial aid. If the dean wanted to estimate the proportion of
All students receiving financial aid to within 3% with 99% reliability, how many students would need
To be sampled?

• A) n = 1,844
• B) n = 1,784
• C) n = 1,503
• D) n = 1,435

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