The political action group supporting a candidate for Senator wishes to conduct a final poll of voter support prior to an election. They want the error term for their estimate of the true proportion of voters supporting the candidate to be 0.04 or less. Find the conservative estimate of the number of voters they will need to survey if thy desire 98% confidence for their estimate.
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