5. Making Inferences from Sample Surveys
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The margin of error gives a limit on how much the responses of a sample would differ from the responses of the population.
about ± 3.7 %
A margin of error gives a limit on how much the responses of a sample would differ from the responses of the population. If we let n be the size of a random sample taken from a large population, we can write an expression for the margin of error.