A researcher wishes to estimate the proportion of adults who have high-speed Internet access. What size sample should be obtained if she wishes the estimate to be within 0.04 with 95% confidence if (a) she uses a previous estimate of 0.36? (b) she does not use any prior estimates? Click the icon to view the table of critical values.

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