TABLE 8-14 a Poll Was Conducted by the Marketing Department of a of a Video

question 141

True/False

TABLE 8-14
A poll was conducted by the marketing department of a video game company to determine the popularity of a new game that was targeted to be launched in three months. Telephone interviews with 1,500 young adults were conducted which revealed that 49% said they would purchase the new game. The margin of error was ±3 percentage points.
-Referring to Table 8-14, the sampling error is 3%.

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