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We Are Interested in Selecting a Sample from a Population

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We are interested in selecting a sample from a population of size 4,000 in order to develop an approximate 95% confidence interval estimate of the population mean. A pilot study has resulted in a standard deviation of 600. What should be the sample size if we do not want the sampling error to exceed 200?


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