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A telephone poll of 818 adult Americans was reported in an issue of Time Magazine. One of the questions asked was, "What is the main problem facing the country?" Thirty-nine percent answered, "crime." Construct a 93% confidence interval for the population proportion of Americans who feel that crime is the main problem.
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