The Department of Education Wishes to Estimate the Average SAT

question 55

Short Answer

The Department of Education wishes to estimate the average SAT score among U.S. high school students. How many students would they have to sample, given that the test has a known population standard deviation of 100, in order to ensure that the margin of error was no more than 20 for a 99% confidence interval?

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