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A study is done on families with children under 18 years old to see whether or not the children
usually carry a mobile phone with them. The results are given in the two-way table below.
Phone No phone Total
Age 7-10 125 391 516
Age 11-14 383 243 626
Age 15-18 360 37 397
Total 868 671 1539
Find a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of children age 15-18 who carry phones.
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