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Confidence Intervals · Easy problem

A health survey expects that about 20%20\% of people will report a certain allergy. How many people must be sampled for a 95%95\% confidence interval for the proportion to have margin of error at most 0.050.05? Use the planning value p∗=0.2p^* = 0.2 and z∗=1.96z^* = 1.96.