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The manager of the dairy section of a large supermarket took a random sample of 250 egg cartons and found that 40 contain at least one broken egg.
- Let p be the proportion of egg cartons with at least one broken egg out of the population of all egg cartons stocked by this store. Find a point estimate of p.
- Find a 95% confidence interval for p.
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