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Given information

From the previous task, the minimum sample size required to construct a 90% confidence interval for the population proportion within 0.05 is found to be 271. The confidence level is now increased. The task is to predict the effect of the same on the minimum sample size.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The formula for the minimum sample size n for a population proportion is:

 

where   are the probabilities of success and failure respectively, is the critical z value for the confidence level and is the error bound or the margin of error.

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