You plan to construct a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of all middle school students who own a cell phone.  You want your interval to have margin of error of 4%.  A study done in 2019 showed 69% of kids aged 12 and over had a cell phone.  What size sample do you need?

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  1. You plan to construct a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of all middle school students who own a cell phone.  You want your interval to have margin of error of 4%.  A study done in 2019 showed 69% of kids aged 12 and over had a cell phone.  What size sample do you need?
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