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A gigantic warehouse stores approximately 80 million empty aluminum beer and soda cans. Recently, a fire occurred at the
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2022 11:44 am
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A gigantic warehouse stores approximately 80 million empty aluminum beer and soda cans. Recently, a fire occurred at the warehouse. The smoke from the fire contaminated many of the cans with blackspot, rendering them unusable. A statistician was hired by the insurance
company to estimate p, the true proportion of cans in the warehouse that were contaminated by the fire. How many aluminum cans should be randomly sampled to estimate p to within 0.09 with 90% confidence? The statistician should sample cans to estimate the proportion that were contaminated by the fire to within 0.09 with 90% confidence. (Round up to the nearest can.)