Instruction 8-18 a Poll Was Conducted by the Marketing Department of a of a Video

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Instruction 8-18
A poll was conducted by the marketing department of a video game company to determine the popularity of a new game that was targeted to be launched in three months. Telephone interviews with 1,500 young adults were conducted which revealed that 49% said they would purchase the new game. The margin of error was ±3 percentage points.
-Referring to Instruction 8-18,what is the needed sample size to obtain a 95% confidence interval in estimating the percentage of the targeted young adults who will purchase the new game to within ±5%?

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