Suppose somebody wishes to estimate the percentage of students who smoke cigarettes at each of several colleges and universities. Two of the colleges are Rice University (enrollment 6621) and Indiana University (enrollment 48,000). The margin of error for an SRS of 5 percent of the students at each school will be:

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The margin of error depends on the sample size, with larger sample sizes resulting in smaller margins of error. Therefore, the margin of error for the SRS of 5 percent of students will be larger for Indiana University, which has a much larger enrollment than Rice University.

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