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Confidence Intervals · Easy problem

A pollster wants the 95% confidence interval for a proportion to have margin of error at most 0.050.05 no matter what the true proportion is. Using the worst case p^=0.5\hat p = 0.5 and z∗=1.96z^* = 1.96, what is the smallest sample size that works?