Trade associations, such as the United Dairy Farmers Association, frequently conduct surveys to identify characteristics of their membership. If this organization conducted a survey to estimate the annual per-capita consumption of milk and wanted to be 95% confident that the estimate was no more than 0.5 gallon away from the actual average, what sample size is needed

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Trade associations, such as the United Dairy Farmers Association, frequently conduct surveys to identify characteristics of their membership. If this organization conducted a survey to estimate the annual per-capital consumption of milk and wanted to be 95% confident that the estimate was no more than 0.5 gallon away from the actual average, what sample size is needed? Past data have indicated that the standard deviation of consumption of approximately 10 gallons.

The  sample size is  

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that

    The margin of error is  

     The confidence level is  %

Given that the confidence level is  95% the level of significance is mathematically represented as

         %

Next we obtain the critical value of   from the normal distribution table , the values is  

The reason we are obtaining critical values of  

instead of  

is because  

represents the area under the normal curve where the confidence level interval (

) did not cover which include both the left and right tail while  

is just the area of one tail which what we required to calculate the sample size

Now the sample size is mathematically represented as

substituting values

c(x)= 6x + 3

step-by-step explanation: