Certain advertisers would like to estimate the proportion of viewers who spend the majority of their television time
watching alone. The consensus is that this percentage has been increasing over the years due to the increased
number of television sets in households.
a. Determine the sample size needed to construct a 90% confidence interval with a margin of error of no more than
6% to estimate the true proportion of viewers who watch television alone.
b. What impact would a pilot sample that showed that 44% of viewers spend the majority of their television time
watching alone have on your on results.
a. The sample size needed is
(Round up to the nearest integer.)
b. The new sample size needed would be 0
(Round up to the nearest integer.)