You wish to estimate, with a 99% confidence, the population proportion (p) of U.S adults who made one or more emergency room visits per year. Your estimate must be accurate within 4.2 % of the population proportion. a. No preliminary estimate is available. Find the minimum sample size needed. b. Find the minimum sample size needed, using a prior estimate that found that 42 % of U.S adults made at least one emergency room visit in the past year.

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  1. You wish to estimate, with a 99% confidence, the population proportion (p) of U.S adults who made one or more emergency room visits per year. Your estimate must be accurate within 4.2 % of the population proportion.

a. No preliminary estimate is available. Find the minimum sample size needed.

b. Find the minimum sample size needed, using a prior estimate that found that 42 % of U.S adults made at least one emergency room visit in the past year.

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