8.97 Driving after drinking In December 2004, a report based on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that 20% of all Americans of ages 16 to 20 drove under the influence of drugs or alcohol in the previous year (AP, December 30, 2004). A public health unit in Wellington, New Zealand, plans a similar survey for young people of that age in New Zealand. It wants a 95%

confidence interval to have a margin of error of 0.04.

a. Find the necessary sample size if the New Zealand public health unit expects results similar to those in the United States.

b. Suppose that in determining the sample size, it uses the safe approach that sets pn = 0.50 in the formula for n. Then, how many records need to be sampled?

Compare this to the answer in part

a. Explain why it is better to make an educated guess about what to expect for pn when possible.