Seventy-three percent of a sample of 1000 students drive a used car as opposed to a new car or no car at all. a) Find an 80 percent confidence interval for the percentage of students who drive a used car. b) What sample size would cut this margin of error in half?

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Seventy-three percent of a sample of 1000 students drive a used car as opposed to a new car or no car at all.

  1. a) Find an 80 percent confidence interval for the percentage of students who drive a used car.
  2. b) What sample size would cut this margin of error in half?
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