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Course Documents
Chapter 1 - Intro
Chapter 2 - Methods for Describing Sets of Data
Chapter 3 - Probability
Chapter 4 - Discrete Random Variables
Chapter 5 - Normal Random Variables
Chapter 6 - Sampling Distributions
Chapter 7 - Confidence Intervals
Chapter 8 - Tests of Hypothesis: One Sample
Chapter 9 - Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests: Two Samples
Sample Exam I: Chapters 1 & 2
Sample Exam II: Chapters 3 & 4
Sample Exam III: Chapters 5 & 6
Sample Exam IV: Chapters 7 & 8
7.6 Confidence Intervals for a Population Proportion
If you wanted to determine the number of people needed for a survey to determine the percent of the population without health insurance, how could this be done? Assume you would like to ultimately form a 95% confidence interval with a margin of error of just 2 percentage points (hint: think of the margin of error formula for the proportion interval).