Determine the sample size needed to be confident

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The internal auditing staff of a local manufacturing company performs a sample audit each quarter to estimate the proportion of accounts that are current (between 0 and 60 days after billing). The historical records show that over the past 8 years 70 percent of the accounts have been current. Determine the sample size needed in order to be 99% confident that the sample proportion of the current customer accounts is within .03 of the true proportion of all current accounts for this company.

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