A researcher believes that 8% of females smoke cigarettes. If the researcher is correct, what is the probability that the proportion of smokers in a sample of 863 females would be greater than 6%? Round your answer to four decimal places.

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A researcher believes that 8% of females smoke cigarettes.

If the researcher is correct, what is the probability that the proportion of smokers in a sample of 863 females would be greater than 6%? Round your answer to four decimal places.

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Given the following parameters for a sampling distribution of sample proportions, calculate the sample proportion. Round your answer to two decimal places.

p=0.35�=0.35, x=28�=28, n=100
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