You are supervising a clinical trial of a medicine that appears to have a serious side effect in about 5 % of patients. To determine the magnitude of the side effect to within 1 %, e.g. 5 +/- 1 %, how big does the clinical trial have to be? Show your work/how you figure it out.

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You are supervising a clinical trial of a medicine that appears to have a serious side effect
in about 5 % of patients. To determine the magnitude of the side effect to within 1 %, e.g. 5 +/- 1 %,
how big does the clinical trial have to be? Show your work/how you figure it out. 

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