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Problem 5

 

If you wanted to determine the number of people needed for a survey to determine the percent of the population without health insurance, how could this be done?  Assume you would like to ultimately form a 95% confidence interval with a margin of error of just 2 percentage points (hint: think of the margin of error formula for the proportion interval).

 

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