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Calculating the sample size needed of a true proportion, given significance levels.
A survey of 200 adults showed that 15% played basketball for regular exercise. If a researcher desires to find the 95% confidence interval of the true proportion of adults who play basketball and be within 1% of the true population, how large a sample should be selected?
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