A Retail Store Manager Is Trying to Improve and Control

question 51

Essay

A retail store manager is trying to improve and control the rate at which cashiers sign customers up for store credit cards. Suppose that the manager wants the maximum standard deviation of the sampling distribution to be 5% and he cannot estimate p-bar. How many observations per sample would this require?

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