Math  /  Data & Statistics

QuestionYou are interested in estimating the the mean age of the citizens living in your community. In order to do this, you plan on constructing a confidence interval; however, you are not sure how many citizens should b included in the sample. If you want your sample estimate to be within 3 years of the actual mean with a confidence level of 96%96 \%, how many citizens should be included in your sample? Assume that the standard deviation of the ages of all the citizens in this community is 18 years.
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We need to sample **196** citizens to be 96% confident that our estimated average age is within 3 years of the true average age.

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