Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th Edition)
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Chapter 8.4, Problem 26E
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To construct: The 99% confidence interval for the proportion of the population of U.S. college graduates who expect to stay at their first employer for 3 or more years and the proportion of the population of U.S. college graduates who are employed in their field of study.
To compare: The result with the result in Section 6.3, Exercise 27, part (a).
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