drug is used to help prevent blood clots in certain patients. In clinical trials, among 4856 patients treated with the drug, 187 developed the adverse reaction of nausea. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the proportion of adverse reactions. A) find the best point estimate of the population proportion p ( round to three decimal places) B) identify the value of the margin of error E C) construct the confidence interval.

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A drug is used to help prevent blood clots in certain patients. In clinical trials, among 4856 patients treated with the drug, 187 developed the adverse reaction of nausea. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the proportion of adverse reactions. A) find the best point estimate of the population proportion p ( round to three decimal places) B) identify the value of the margin of error E C) construct the confidence interval.  

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