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When taking a survey in Macys on Chrismas day, you count how many people enterthe store, then you count how many people go only to the Estee Lauder counter. How do you estimate the percentage of Estee Lauder customers to overall customers? cannot figure out percentage you get percentage of the whole store need more info \gooditem{when estimating percentages, it is the absolute size of the sample none of the above

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Carlos Rodriguez <carlos@math.albany.edu>

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Last modified: Wed May 13 12:29:11 EDT 1998