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When a random sample of size n is taken from a large population, the same has a large margin of approximately _____.

When a random sample of size n is taken from a large population, the same has a large-example-1
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The margin of error is approximately


\pm\frac{1}{\sqrt[]{n}}

where n is the size of the sample.

2020 adults were sampled, thus n = 2020:

Thus, the sample has an error of:


\pm\frac{1}{\sqrt[]{2020}}=\pm0.02224970797449923946989914895593

Expressing in %.

Margin of error = 2.22%

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