Question: School vouchers A national opinion poll found that 44% of all American adults agree that parents should be given vouchers that are good for education at any public or private school of their choice. The result was based on a small sample.
a) How large an SRS is required to obtain a margin of error of 0.03 (that is, ±3%) in a 99% confidence interval? Answer this question using the previous poll's result as the guessed value for p^.
b) Answer the question in part (a) again, but this time use the conservative guess p^ = 0.5. By how much do the two sample sizes differ?