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A Publisher Is Interested in Estimating the Proportion of Textbooks

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A publisher is interested in estimating the proportion of textbooks that students resell at the end of the semester. He is interested in making this estimate using a confidence level of 95 percent and a margin of error of ±0.02. Based upon his prior experience, he believes that π is somewhere around 0.60. Given this information, the required sample size is over 2,300 students.


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