A poll is taken in which 300 out of 575 randomly selected voters indicated their preference for a certain candidate. (a) Find a 90% confidence interval for p.  ≤ p ≤  (b) Find the margin of error for this 9090% confidence interval for pp. (c) Without doing any calculations, indicate whether the margin of error is larger or smaller or the same for an 80% confidence interval. A. smaller B. larger C. same

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A poll is taken in which 300 out of 575 randomly selected voters indicated their preference for a certain candidate.

(a) Find a 90% confidence interval for p.

 ≤ p ≤ 

(b) Find the margin of error for this 9090% confidence interval for pp.



(c) Without doing any calculations, indicate whether the margin of error is larger or smaller or the same for an 80% confidence interval.
A. smaller
B. larger
C. same

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