MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
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A philanthropic organisation sent free mailing labels and greeting cards to a random sample of 100,000 potential donors on their mailing list and received 4887 donations.
(a) Give a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of those from their entire mailing list who may donate.
(b) A staff member thinks that the true rate is 4.8%.
Given the confidence interval you found, do you find that rate plausible?
Given the confidence interval you found, do you find that rate plausible?
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