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How large a sample of facebook users is needed in order to estimate μ with a 95% confidence interval of length 5.86 friends ?
ANSWER:
903
Good job! We would like our confidence interval to be a 95% confidence interval (implying that z* = 2) and the confidence interval length should be 5.86, therefore the margin of error (m) = 5.86/ 2 = 2.93. The sample size we need in order to obtain this is: 903: