The service department at a new car dealer checks for small dents in cars brought in for scheduled maintenance. It finds that 27 of 86 randomly-sampled cars have a dent that can be removed easily. The service department wants to estimate the percentage of all cars with these easily repaired dents. List and check the conditions, construct a plus-four confidence interval to estimate the percentage with 99% confidence, and write it in a complete sentence related to the scenario.

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Section10.6: Summarizing Categorical Data
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The service department at a new car dealer checks for small dents in cars brought in for scheduled maintenance. It finds that 27 of 86 randomly-sampled cars have a dent that can be removed easily. The service department wants to estimate the percentage of all cars with these easily repaired dents. List and check the conditions, construct a plus-four confidence interval to estimate the percentage with 99% confidence, and write it in a complete sentence related to the scenario.

 

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