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A pollster is interested in gauging how a given state’s Governor would perform i

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Question

A pollster is interested in gauging how a given state’s Governor would perform in his home state if he ran for President. The pollster randomly selects a sample of voters from a list of all eligible voting citizens in that state. Because nearly 75% of the state’s voters claim a party affiliation (e.g. Democrat, Republican), the pollster decides to include approximately 25 non-affiliated voters for every 75 affiliated voters in his sample.

A. Simple Random Sampling

B. Stratified Sampling

C. Non-random Sampling

D. None of the Above

A call center manager wants to measure customer fulfillment order time. She estimates the call lengths to be 5.75 minutes with a standard deviation of 7.00 minutes. She want to be +/- 1 percent in her sampling error. At 95% confidence in her results, what should the sample size be? Show your work.

Explanation / Answer

Solutionb:

Stratified sampling refers to a type of sampling method . With stratified sampling, the researcher divides the population into separate groups, called strata. Then, a probability sample (often a simple random sample ) is drawn from each group

ANSWER"Stratified sampling

A call center manager wants to measure customer fulfillment order time. She estimates the call lengths to be 5.75 minutes with a standard deviation of 7.00 minutes. She want to be +/- 1 percent in her sampling error. At 95% confidence in her results, what should the sample size be? Show your wo

z crit for 95%=1.96

sample size=n=(Z sigma/E)^2

=(1.96*7/1)^2

=188.2384

=188

Required sample size=188