A genetic theory says that a cross between two pink flowering plants will produce red flowering plants 25% of the time. How large a sample is needed if we would like to assert with 95% confidence that the sample proportion is off by at most 2%? 305746    2526071801

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A genetic theory says that a cross between two pink flowering plants will produce red flowering plants 25% of the time. How large a sample is needed if we would like to assert with 95% confidence that the sample proportion is off by at most 2%?

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