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Confidence Intervals · Challenge problem

A poll of 400400 randomly chosen people asked a yes/no question. The report gives only the margin of error of the 95%95\% confidence interval for the proportion answering yes, 0.04490.0449 (computed with z∗=1.96z^* = 1.96 and rounded to four decimal places), and says that fewer than half answered yes. How many of the 400400 answered yes?