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A manager at an assembly line is trying to seewhat proportion of their products are defective. The manager does a quality ceckby sampling 132 of its products. the manager finds that 16% of the 132 products are defective. Assume the proportion of defective products followed a
A- create a 80% confidence interval for the percent of defective products for the company
B- interpret the confidence interval that was found for part A
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