A random sample of married people were asked "would you remarry your spouse if you were given the opportunity for a second time?"; of the 150 people surveyed, 127 of them said that they would do so. Find the margin of error that corresponds to a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of married people who would remarry their spouse.  a) 0.113 b) 0.048 c) 0.029 d) 0.058 e) 0.002

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A random sample of married people were asked "would you remarry your spouse if you were given the opportunity for a second time?"; of the 150 people surveyed, 127 of them said that they would do so. Find the margin of error that corresponds to a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of married people who would remarry their spouse. 

a) 0.113

b) 0.048

c) 0.029

d) 0.058

e) 0.002

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