A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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in a survey of 499 randomly selected gun owners, it was found that 62 of them said they owned a gun primarily for protection.
find the margin of error and 95% confidence interval for the percentage of all gun owners who would say they own a gun primarily for protection.
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