A paper reported a (1-a) confidence interval for the proportion of voters is (0.561, 0.599) based on a sample of 2,106 people. However, the paper omitted the value of a. What is the value of a? Please report your answer upto 3 decimal places.

A paper reported a (1-a) confidence interval for the proportion of voters is (0.561, 0.599) based on a sample of 2,106 people. However, the paper omitted the value of a. What is the value of a? Please report your answer upto 3 decimal places.

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A paper reported a (1-a)
confidence interval for the
proportion of voters is (0.561,
0.599) based on a sample of
2,106 people. However, the
paper omitted the value of a.
What is the value of a? Please
report your answer upto 3
decimal places.

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