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OpenStax, Statistics §8.3 A Population Proportion · Try It 6 · Statistics · Confidence intervals

A Population Proportion · Try It 6

An internet marketing company wants to determine the current percentage of customers who click on ads on their smartphones. How many customers should the company survey in order to be 90 percent confident that the estimated proportion is within 5 percentage points of the true population proportion of customers who click on ads on their smartphones? Assume that the sample proportion p′ is 0.50.

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