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Introductory Statistics
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Introductory Statistics

Introductory Statistics

Book edition OER 2018
Author(s) Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Pages 902 pages
ISBN 9781938168208

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Suppose 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 % confident that the estimated proportion is within five percentage points of the true population proportion of customers who click on ads on their smartphones?

The sample size is n = 271

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Step 1: Given Information

Given in the question that, an internet marketing company wants to determine the current percentage of customers who click on ads on their smartphones

We must locate How many consumers need the company survey in order to be 90 percent confident that the predicted proportion of customers who click on advertising on their cellphones is within five percentage points of the genuine population proportion?

Step 2: Explanation

According to the information, We know that confident level is 90%,

Then,

α2=10.902=0.05

and

zα2=1.645

However, we need to know the estimated (sample) proportion p in order to find localid="1650608891485" n. Keep in mind that localid="1650608908717" q=1 -p. However, we don't yet know what localid="1650608912935" p is. Because localid="1650608916792" p and localid="1650608921420" q are multiplied simultaneously, we set them both to localid="1650608941278" 0.5 because localid="1650608925298" pq=0.5 × 0.5= 0.25 yields the biggest feasible product.

The error in estimating the true value of localid="1650608945447" p is localid="1650608949079" E=5%=0.05 than from equation (1)

localid="1650608953027" n=(1.6450.05)20.25 =270.6025

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