A statistics practitioner working for major league baseball wants to supply radio and television commentators with interesting statistics. He observed several hundred games and counted the number of times a runner on first base attempted to steal second base. He found there were 373 such events of which 259 were successful. Estimate with 95% confidence the proportion of all attempted thefts of second base that are successful.

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A statistics practitioner working for major league baseball wants to supply
radio and television commentators with interesting statistics. He observed
several hundred games and counted the number of times a runner on first
base attempted to steal second base. He found there were 373 such events
of which 259 were successful. Estimate with 95% confidence the proportion
of all attempted thefts of second base that are successful.
Transcribed Image Text:A statistics practitioner working for major league baseball wants to supply radio and television commentators with interesting statistics. He observed several hundred games and counted the number of times a runner on first base attempted to steal second base. He found there were 373 such events of which 259 were successful. Estimate with 95% confidence the proportion of all attempted thefts of second base that are successful.
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