The National Sales Manager for a Textbook Publishing Company Wishes

question 43

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The national sales manager for a textbook publishing company wishes to estimate the mean number of books sold per college. She wishes to have her estimate be within ± 30 copies and wants a 95 percent confidence interval estimate. If a pilot sample of 30 schools gave a sample standard deviation equal to 60 books, the required total sample size is less than the pilot sample already taken.

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