A quality-control engineer wants to estimate the fraction of defectives in a large lot of printer ink

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A quality-control engineer wants to estimate the fraction of defectives in a large lot of printer ink cartridges. From previous experience, he feels that the actual fraction of defectives should be somewhere around .05. How large a sample should he take if he wants to estimate the true fraction to within .01, using a 95% confidence interval?
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Introduction To Probability And Statistics

ISBN: 9781133103752

14th Edition

Authors: William Mendenhall, Robert Beaver, Barbara Beaver

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