SOLUTION: Out of the 200 insomniacs, 98 reported regularly watching The Late Show with David Letterman before they began to count sheep.Calculate the margin of error for a 78% confidence int

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Question 452767: Out of the 200 insomniacs, 98 reported regularly watching The Late Show with David Letterman before they began to count sheep.Calculate the margin of error for a 78% confidence interval of the true proportion of insomniacs who regularly watch David Letterman before counting sheep.
A. 0.164
B. 0.056
C. 0.043
D. 0.136

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Out of the 200 insomniacs, 98 reported regularly watching The Late Show with David Letterman before they began to count sheep.Calculate the margin of error for a 78% confidence interval of the true proportion of insomniacs who regularly watch David Letterman before counting sheep.
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p = 98/200 = 0.49
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ME = z*sqrt[pq/n]
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ME = 1.226528*sqrt[0.49*0.51/200] = 0.0434
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Stan H.
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A. 0.164
B. 0.056
C. 0.043
D. 0.136