A Recent Gallup Poll Interviewed a Random Sample of 1523

question 39

Multiple Choice

A recent Gallup Poll interviewed a random sample of 1523 adults. Of these, 868 bought a lottery ticket in the past year.
The same Gallup Poll asked its 1523 adult respondents and also 501 teens (ages 13 to 17) whether they generally approved of legal gambling: 63% of adults and 52% of teens said yes. The margin of error for a 95% confidence statement about teens would be

• A) greater than for adults, because the teen sample is smaller.
• B) less than for adults, because the teen sample is smaller.
• C) less than for adults, because there are fewer teens in the population.
• D) the same as for adults, because they both come from the same sample survey.
• E) Can't say, because it depends on what percent of each population was in the sample.

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