You want to obtain a sample to estimate the proportion of a population that possess a particular genetic marker. Based

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You want to obtain a sample to estimate the proportion of a population that possess a particular genetic marker. Based

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You want to obtain a sample to estimate the proportion of apopulation that possess a particular genetic marker. Based onprevious evidence, you believeapproximately p∗=77%p∗=77% of the population have thegenetic marker. You would like to be 98% confident that yourestimate is within 1.5% of the true population proportion. How large of a sample size is required?n =
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