You Wish to Construct a 95% Confidence Interval to Compare

question 46

Multiple Choice

You wish to construct a 95% confidence interval to compare two proportions.If we wish to obtain a margin of error of at most 0.04,what sample size should we take from each group? Assume equal sample sizes.

• A)1984
• B)1201
• C)601
• D)1200
• E)600

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