A researcher wishes to estimate the number of households with two types of vegetables in their backyard gardens in Meanwood Chamba Valley of Lusaka Province. How large a sample is needed in order to be 98% confident that the sample proportion will not differ from the true proportion by more than 3%? A previous study indicates that the proportion of households with two types of vegetables in their backyard gardens is 25%

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 A researcher wishes to estimate the number of households with two types of
vegetables in their backyard gardens in Meanwood Chamba Valley of Lusaka
Province. How large a sample is needed in order to be 98% confident that the
sample proportion will not differ from the true proportion by more than 3%? A
previous study indicates that the proportion of households with two types of
vegetables in their backyard gardens is 25%. 

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