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.  ?   %  to   ? %

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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,

E=zα2p^1-p^n=1.960.74681-0.74682500=0.01705=1.705%(inpercentage)

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