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The use of the internet is constantly growing. How many randomly selected adults must be surveyed to estimate the percentage of adults in the United States who now use the internet? Assume we want to be 99% confident that the sample percentage is within 2 percentage points of the true population percentage.

a) Assume that nothing is known about the percentage of adults using the internet.






b) Assume it was estimated that 72% of adults in the United States use the internet.

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Out of those 2 answers I believe your answer would be B only because 81% of Americans in the us have a phone and 35% of people in the us check there phone more than 50 times per day
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