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OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e §8.3 A Population Proportion · Exercise 11 · Statistics · Confidence intervals

A Population Proportion · Exercise 11

Of 1,050 randomly selected adults, 360 identified themselves as manual laborers, 280 identified themselves as non-manual wage earners, 250 identified themselves as mid-level managers, and 160 identified themselves as executives. In the survey, 82% of manual laborers preferred trucks, 62% of non-manual wage earners preferred trucks, 54% of mid-level managers preferred trucks, and 26% of executives preferred trucks.

Suppose we want to lower the sampling error. What is one way to accomplish that?

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