Suppose the manager of a shoe store wants to determine the current percentage of customers who are males. How many customers should the manager survey in order to be 95% confident that the estimated (sample) proportion is within 6 percentage

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Suppose the manager of a shoe store wants to determine the current percentage of customers who are males. How many customers should the manager survey in order to be 95% confident that the estimated (sample) proportion is within 6 percentage points of the true population proportion of customers who are males?

z0.10 z0.05 z0.04 z0.025 z0.01 z0.005
1.282 1.645 1.751 1.960 2.326 2.576

Use the table of values above.

 

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