Design a confidence interval


Discuss the below:

Q1: You wish to estimate with 95 percent confidence the proportion of families that own two cars.

a)How large a sample do you need if you allow an error of up to 2 percent in each direction?

b)What will be the sample size if your prior estimate for p was 0.7?

Q2: A sample of 400 people getting a tax refund showed the mean to be $900 and standard deviation to be $200.

a)Design a 99 percent confidence interval.

b)How large a sample do you need if you want the error to be no more than $10?

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