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Preliminary estimated suggest that about 58% of students at a state university favor implementing an honor code. To obtain a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of all students at the university favoring the honor code, what is the minimum sample size needed if the total width of the confidence interval must be less than 5 percentage points?

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Preliminary estimated suggest that about 58% of students at a state university favor implementing an honor code.

To obtain a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of all students at the university favoring the honor code, what is the minimum sample size needed if the total width of the ...

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