The proportion of color blind individuals in a population needs to be estimated by the percentage observed in a random sample of individuals of size n. If the percentage of color blind individuals in the sample is 30%, estimate the value of n so that, with a confidence level of 0.95, the error in the estimate is less than 3.1%.

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The proportion of color blind individuals in a population needs to be estimated by the percentage observed in a random sample of individuals of size n. If the percentage of color blind individuals in the sample is 30%, estimate the value of n so that, with a confidence level of 0.95, the error in the estimate is less than 3.1%.

 
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