Estimate the true proportion to within one percent

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Many people think that a national lobby's successful fight against gun control legislation is reflecting the will of a minority of Americans. A previous random sample of 4000 citizens yielded 2250 who are in favor of gun control legislation. How many citizens would need to be sampled if a 99% confidence interval was desired to estimate the true proportion to within 1%?

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