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\nThis video explains how to use simulation to decrease the size of a confidence interval, using the example of a cafeteria manager who wants to know how many parents of school children believe that school lunches are satisfactory. The...\nThis video explains how to use simulation to decrease the size of a confidence interval, using the example of a cafeteria manager who wants to know how many parents of school children believe that school lunches are satisfactory. The video covers the concepts of normal distribution, margin of error, sampling distribution, and confidence interval, and shows how increasing the sample size can reduce the margin of error and provide a narrower range of likely values for the population proportion.\n
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8:32
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K - 5th
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\nLearnZillion Math\n\n
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2015
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English
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standard deviation, sample size, parents, size, range, normal distribution
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minus, confidence interval, approximately normal, cafeteria, distribution, narrower, sample proportions, parent approval, ccss.math.content.hss-ic.b.4, cafeteria manager, sampling distribution, result, manager, approximately, large, parent satisfaction, school lunches, population proportion, interval, sample, random sample, population parameter, sample statistic, confidence level, approximately 95
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