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Calculate the mean and the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of possible sample proportions for each combination of sample size (n) and population proportion (p).
(a)
n = 384, p = 0.4
mean:
standard deviation:
(b)
n = 1,536, p = 0.4
mean:
standard deviation:
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