It's believed that as many as 25% of adults over 50 never graduated from high school. We
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a) How many of this younger age group must we survey in order to estimate the proportion of non-grads to within 6% with 90% confidence?
b) Suppose we want to cut the margin of error to 4%. What's the necessary sample size?
c) What sample size would produce a margin of error of 3%?
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