Section 7.1 (p.382)

 

1.         has a normal distribution with mean q and variance 4/n. Therefore,

4/n £ 0.1  ̃ n ³ 40.

 

3.         has a standard normal distribution. Therefore,

From Table on p.689 we know that ³ 1.96. Therefore n ³ 1537.

 

4.         has a binomial distribution with parameters n and p = 0.2

To find the smallest n satisfying the above inequality, we use “try and error” for some n. Then we can show that the smallest n is 10. (Try it yourself using the table on p.682. You will see that n = 7, 8, 9 don’t work and when n = 10, Pr(1 £ SXi £ 3) = 0.7717 ³ 0.75)

 

5.         has mean p = 0.2 and variance p(1-p) /n = 0.16/n

 will have approximately a standard normal distribution according to CLT.

Therefore, ³ 1.96, n ³ 62.

 

7.        

Note that p(1-p) £ ¼ (why? Take a derivative with respect to p). Therefore for p(1-p)/n £ 0.01 holds for all possible p, n ³ 0.25/0.01 = 25.