A poll asked for people's opinion on whether closing local newspapers would hurt civic life. 425 of 1002 respondents said it would hurt civic life a lot. a. Find the proportion of the respondents who said that closing local papers would hurt civic life a lot. b. Find a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion who believed closing newspapers would hurt civic life a lot. Assume the poll used a simple random sample. (Round to three decimal places.) c. Find an 80% confidence interval for the population proportion who believed closing newspapers would hurt civic life a lot. (Round to three decimal places as needed.)

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A poll asked for people's opinion on whether closing local newspapers would hurt civic life. 425 of 1002
respondents said it would hurt civic life a lot.
a. Find the proportion of the respondents who said that closing local papers would hurt civic life a lot.
b. Find a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion who believed closing newspapers would hurt
civic life a lot. Assume the poll used a simple random sample. (Round to three decimal places.)
ć. Find an 80% confidence interval for the population proportion who believed closing newspapers would hurt
civic life a lot. (Round to three decimal places as needed.)
d. Which interval is wider and why?
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