The analyst decides to test this assumption by collecting a random sample of 100 New Yorkers and finds that 65 out of these 100 people are Democrats What is a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of Democrats in the population?     a. (0.504, 0.696)     b.  (0.557, 0.743)     c. (0.484, 0.716)      d. (0.507, 0.693)     e. (0.527, 0.773)

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An analyst assumes that 60 percent of all New Yorkers are Democrats.

The analyst decides to test this assumption by collecting a random sample of 100 New Yorkers and finds that 65 out of these 100 people are Democrats

What is a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of Democrats in the population?

 

  a.

(0.504, 0.696)

 

  b.

 (0.557, 0.743)

 

  c.

(0.484, 0.716) 

 

  d.

(0.507, 0.693)

 

  e.

(0.527, 0.773)

 

 
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