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You are the operations manager for an airline and you are considering a higher fare level for passengers in aisle seats. How many randomly selected air passengers must you survey? Assume that you want to be
99% confident that the sample percentage is within 3.5 percentage points of the true population percentage.
a. Assume that nothing is known about the percentage of passengers who prefer aisle seats.
n= ____
(Round up to the nearest integer.)
b. Assume that a prior survey suggests that about 33% of air passengers prefer an aisle seat.
n=____
(Round up to the nearest integer.)
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