College officials want to estimate the percentage of students who carry a gun, knife, or other such weapon. How many randomly selected students must be surveyed in order to be % confident that the sample percentage has a margin of error of percentage points?

(a) Assume that there is no available information that could be used as an estimate of .

Answer:

(b) Assume that another study indicated that % of college students carry weapons. Answer:

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