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A Confidence Interval Was Used to Estimate the Proportion of Statistics

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A confidence interval was used to estimate the proportion of statistics students who are female. A random sample of 72 statistics students generated the following 90% confidence interval: (0.438, 0.642) . Using the information above, what total size sample would be necessary if we wanted to estimate the true proportion to within ±0.08 using 95% confidence?


A) 105
B) 150
C) 420
D) 597

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