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At one large college, 1867 out of the 2500 students surveyed said they plan to take another science class.
Find the 95% confidence interval for the proportion of students that said they plan to take another science class.
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The known values are,
p^=1,867/2,500=0.7468, n=2,500.
Using standard normal table, the critical value for two-tailed test at 95% confidence interval is 1.96.
The margin of error is,
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