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Suppose we randomly select n=2000 Douglas College students and we find that 205 of these students are left-handed. What is the 95% confidence interval for p= the proportion of left-handed students at Douglas? Fill in the blanks (round to three decimal places):
We are 95% confident that p is between and .
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