Suppose that prior to conducting a coin-flipping experiment, we suspect that the coin is fair. How many times would we have to flip the coin in order to obtain a 98% confidence interval of width of at most .12 for the probability of flipping a head? (note that the z-score was rounded to three decimal places in the calculation) a) 373 b) 376 c) 293

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Suppose that prior to conducting a coin-flipping experiment, we suspect that the coin is fair. How many times would we have to flip the coin in order to obtain a 98% confidence interval of width of at most .12 for the probability of flipping a head? (note that the z-score was rounded to three decimal places in the calculation)
a) 373
b) 376
c) 293
d) 290
e) 379
f) None of the above
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