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Sampling and Experiments · Challenge problem

A town has 900900 adults: 800800 have one phone line and 100100 have two. A pollster lists all 10001000 phone lines and calls lines chosen at random, so a person with two lines is twice as likely to be reached. Of the one-line adults 40%40\% support a proposal, and of the two-line adults 70%70\%. By how many percentage points does the expected poll result exceed the true level of support in the town? Express your answer as a common fraction.