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4. According to a 2019 Federal Reserve report, 54% of U.S. young adults who went to college took on some debt for their education. Suppose we take a random sample of 400 U.S. young adults who went to college and took on some debt,
a) Find the mean and standard of the sampling distribution of ?̂.
mean= ?? =
standard deviation of the sample proportion, ?? =
b) Determine the probability that more than 60% of the persons in the sample took on some debt.
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