An event marketing executive thinks that the proportion of consumers who have seen his company’s advertising in newspapers is somewhere between 65 and 85 percent.  He wants to estimate the consumer population proportion to within ± 1 percent and have 90 percent confidence in the estimate.  How large a sample should be taken? State the most conservative sample size.

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An event marketing executive thinks that the proportion of consumers who have seen his company’s advertising in newspapers is somewhere between 65 and 85 percent.  He wants to estimate the consumer population proportion to within ± 1 percent and have 90 percent confidence in the estimate.  How large a sample should be taken? State the most conservative sample size.

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