A Researcher Wants to Construct a 99% Confidence Interval for the Proportion

question 94

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to construct a 99% confidence interval for the proportion of elementary school students in Seward County who receive free or reduced-price school
Lunches. What sample size is needed so that the confidence interval will have a margin of
Error of 0.07?

• A) 24
• B) 277
• C) 339
• D) 10

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