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Federal prison populations- nationally 60.2% of federal prisoners are serving time for drug offenses. a warden feels that in his prison the percentage is even higher. he surveys 400 randomly selected inmates records and finds that 260 of the inmates are drug offenders. At a=0.05, is he correct?
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