poll reported that only 645 out of a total of 2029 adults in a particular region said they had a​ "great deal of​ confidence" or​ "quite a lot of​ confidence" in the public school system. This was down 5 percentage points from the previous year. Assume the conditions for using the CLT are met. Find an 80​% confidence interval and interpret it. The 80​% confidence interval for the proportion that express a great deal of confidence or quite a lot of confidence in the public schools is ____.

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A poll reported that only 645 out of a total of 2029 adults in a particular region said they had a​ "great deal of​ confidence" or​ "quite a lot of​ confidence" in the public school system. This was down 5 percentage points from the previous year. Assume the conditions for using the CLT are met. Find an 80​% confidence interval and interpret it. The 80​% confidence interval for the proportion that express a great deal of confidence or quite a lot of confidence in the public schools is ____. 

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Find the width of each interval by subtracting the lower proportion from the upper​ proportion, and state which interval is wider.
 
The width of the 95​% confidence interval is ___ and the width of the 80​% confidence interval is ____.  The ___(80% or 95%)interval is wider.
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Interpret this interval. Select the correct choice below and fill in the answer boxes to complete your choice.
​(Type integers or decimals rounded to three decimal places as​ needed.)
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We are ___​% confident that the population proportion of adults having a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the public schools is between ___ and ___
 
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We are ___​% confident that the every sample proportion of adults having a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the public schools is between ___ and ___
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There is a ___% chance that the population proportion of adults having a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the public schools is between ___ and ___
 
D. There is a ____​% chance that the sample proportion of adults having a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the public schools is between ___ and ___
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