In a study on how people get to work, 360 employees are selected randomly in a city; it is found that 9.2% of them commute by carpooling. Use "shortcut" formula, 1/sqaure root of n to estimate the margin of error

In a study on how people get to work, 360 employees are selected randomly in a city; it is found that 9.2% of them commute by carpooling. Use "shortcut" formula, 1/sqaure root of n to estimate the margin of error

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